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China Eases Real-Name Blog Effort
by R.A. Hettinga 23 May '07

23 May '07

That quaint old Texas expression "pissin' in the wind" comes to mind. Some days, I really do think that Duncan Frissell was right. Markets and geodesic networks *are* the blob that ate the state. Cheers, RAH Other days, of course, I don't even wanna get out of bed, it's so depressin'... ------- <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB117985706995511069.html> The Wall Street Journal China Eases Real-Name Blog Effort By JASON LEOW May 23, 2007 BEIJING -- China has confirmed it will back down from a campaign to require citizens to register their real names before they can start blogging, after sharp protests from industry players caused the government to rethink the policy. The government tried to require bloggers to register their true identities in order to curb, or at least reduce, the amount of pornography, antigovernment views and other posts that officials deemed threatening to social order. Monday's announcement by the Internet Society of China, a government-affiliated think tank, that it will advocate voluntary -- rather than mandatory -- real-name registration was the first official confirmation of the policy change, reported in The Wall Street Journal last week. The Internet Society released a draft of a pact that blogging companies can choose to sign and said it will collect public reaction until May 28. The pact encourages Internet companies to set up real-name blogging spaces, but it won't force an end to current blog sites that don't require identification. China has some 20 million bloggers, of whom seven million to eight million are active users who update their sites at least once a week. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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23 May '07

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23 May '07

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23 May '07

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23 May '07

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Confessions of a money launderer
by R.A. Hettinga 21 May '07

21 May '07

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/6668879.stm> The BBC Sunday, 20 May 2007, 21:46 GMT 22:46 UK Confessions of a money launderer By Paul Burnell BBC News Kenneth Rijock's first venture into money laundering could almost have come from a B-movie. He dressed his clients in business suits carrying attache cases full of millions of dollars with a cover story they were inspecting potential factory premises in the British Dependent Territory of Anguilla. They chartered a small jet from Fort Lauderdale, piloted by a World War Two vet who carried cash but drew the line at drugs. "The customs officers told us to close our cases quickly in case we were spotted," recalls Mr Rijock, 59. Then it was off to form bogus companies in a tax haven with 300 banks and a population of 8,000 people at that time. His contact was prominent lawyer Peter Hendrix - constitutional advisor to Her Majesty's government in the British Dependent Territory - who over the years held several government posts in neighbouring St Kitts. "It was like having Henry Kissinger as your personal attorney," he says. Interesting offer How had a twice decorated Vietnam vet working as a banking lawyer found himself on the wrong side in his country's war against drugs? In the aftermath of a broken marriage he ended up staying with a friend of a friend who had extensive Latin American connections and many nocturnal visitors. It turned out the man was dealing in cannabis and cocaine. With legitimate expertise in dealing with Caribbean tax havens, Rijock found himself being asked to help clean up dirty money. He had no criminal experience, but contacted a cousin who recently served a jail term for a major scam in Castro's Cuba. It was then he was introduced to Mr Hendrix. The money deposited in the Caribbean bank did not stay there, as the cash was transported with other deposits to a major New York bank, into a correspondent account the bank maintained there. The US bank paid more interest to the Caribbean bank than my clients received, and that evening the money was lent out, at a higher rate still, to a Fortune 500 company. "My clients were actually receiving interest on their drug profits," says Rijock. "Everyone made money that day, except the American tax man." "These clients," he says, "who had started their drug smuggling business with a borrowed $5,000 and a borrowed sailboat, would go on make $200m in the next decade, and my job was to assist them." More business followed, with drug profits ploughed into a whole series of legitimate businesses from a high-class restaurant to fine art and antiques. It helped if the businesses worked on a cash basis. One client even wanted to use his cash to make a movie about legendary blues musician Robert Johnson. All the time Rijock kept his day job as a straight lawyer keeping a low profile and normal business hours. Clean cases were restricted to clients who would not interfere with his need to suddenly fly abroad at the request of his drug clients. Consultant career Rijock never personally laundered money in the US, kept all of his criminal transactions cash and always travelled on a Friday or Monday when many people might think he had gone on a weekend break. "I always spent my money as I never expected to live beyond 40," he says. Rijock spent most of the 80s as a "laundryman", until one day two special agents barged into his office and arrested him on charges of racketeering (which carried a 20 year sentence) and conspiracy to defraud the internal revenue service. One of Rijock's clients, who was facing a 30-year sentence, had implicated him in money laundering to get the sentence reduced. In turn Rijock got his sentence cut by telling the authorities about the cash he had laundered but not his clients, who could have had him killed. Released penniless from jail in 1992 he found himself in demand from law enforcement agents wanting to learn the tricks of the trade so they could launch sting operations on money laundering. This career change now sees him a consultant to financial institutions, advising on compliance, and as a trainer/lecturer to law enforcement agents and the intelligence services of both the United States and Canada. Junior staff In demand as a speaker, Rijock went on a spring tour in Europe last week, with speeches to the Institute of Money Laundering Protection Officers in Manchester, followed by addresses in the Isle of Man, London and Gibraltar. Money launderers, says Rijock, will often look to exploit the weaknesses of conventional business and officialdom. This might include banking money at 4.49pm on Friday - a time when junior staff are already thinking about the weekend or making hazardous trips through customs on the day of the US Superbowl final. Now on the side of the angels, he scours the world for latest examples of money laundering trade craft. "I get up at 5am each day," he says. "Money launderers work 24/7 and so do I." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 1
by R.A. Hettinga 21 May '07

21 May '07

<http://www.world-check.com/confessions/2007/02/25/confessions-money-launder…> World-Check | Reducing Risk Through Intelligence. Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check More about the Author Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 1 2 October 2006 How did I get to be a money launderer and what is it like for those who practise that dark art? Today we publish the first installment in a series that will answer those important questions, and further detail how I went from career criminal to financial crime consultant and compliance officer. In the world of money laundering, you often wonder whether this will be the day that some law enforcement agency shuts down your operation. This may happen not because of some mistake you have carelessly committed, but because some client, already under arrest and looking at a long term in prison, discloses some critical details of your financial pipeline. It is called Substantial Assistance in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; the only way one can obtain a reduction in what might be a long sentence is to give up information useful in making additional arrests, or to assist the government in gaining possession of criminal profits. The End of the Beginning. The day began much like any other; I was in my law office very early, preparing for a commercial real estate closing. A Colombian client was purchasing an apartment building that morning, and I was going over the documents before business began for the day. Many money launderers are lawyers and accountants with numerous legitimate clients who have no idea their trusted advisor moves illicit funds for criminal organisations. They think he is just another diligent professional serving the business community. Two Special Agents that I knew to be from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division in Fort Lauderdale, barged into the office and announced that I was under arrest. These agents had previously sought to obtain information from me about my clients' offshore tax haven financial activity, and had subpoenaed me to appear before a Grand Jury investigating my clients. They were understandably quite unhappy when I refused to testify, and since the government prosecutor declined to give me immunity (I was also a target), they were unable to obtain details of the clients' tax haven corporations. Therefore, arresting me that day two years later must have been quite satisfying. I was driven downtown to the US District courthouse, and learned that I was being charged with: * Racketeering (RICO) Conspiracy, which could result in a sentence of 20 years to life in federal prison upon conviction. * Conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by interfering with the lawful collection of taxes, another felony, with a 5 year term of imprisonment. Dumped into a holding cell, I was brought before a magistrate judge that afternoon, who released me on bond after a short hearing where he noted that my substantial ties to the community made me a low risk for flight. Since I had resided in Miami for twenty years, he knew that I was not about to flee before trial, and lose my license to practise law. How did a decorated military veteran of America's wars, who had never before been arrested, and with seventeen years of experience as a lawyer in Miami, come to be before the court under such circumstances? To answer that question, we must turn back the clock ten years, and enter the sordid world of narcotics trafficking at a time when it exploded upon the North American market. The House on Twenty-Third Street. It was a tattered, white wood-frame home in Miami's middle class Shenandoah neighborhood, complete with front porch swing, and an old Pan American Airways street number, evidently left by a prior owner or tenant. A quiet street in an anonymous, older part of town. Nobody paid much attention to the residents. That house had but one occupant; Let's call him Bill Baker. Bill was an American, born in St. Louis. The son of two missionaries, his family had moved to Cuba when Bill was a small child, and he grew up in that Caribbean nation. After military service with the Marines in Vietnam, Bill had moved to Miami, where he soon found that his unique bilingual, bicultural background made him eminently suitable as a liaison between Colombian drug smugglers, and Americans and Cubans seeking to move cocaine and marijuana to consumers throughout the United States and Canada. Bill's home was the point of contact between the smugglers and the dealers, and I came to live in that home with him for several months at a critical time in my life, picking up not only a working knowledge of drug smuggling trade-craft, but a host of criminal clients as well. In our next installment: the journey from lawyer to money launderer begins. SUBSCRIBE TO SOMETHING Your Name da name error Your Email da address error Submit Read more in this exciting series Confessions of a Money launderer - Part 32 21 May 2007 Confessions of a Money launderer - Part 31 6 May 2007 Confessions of a Money launderer - Part 30 30 April 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 29 22 April 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 28 15 April 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 27 8 April 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 26 2 April 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 25 24 March 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 24 19 March 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 23 12 March 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - part 22 5 March 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 21 25 February 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 20 19 February 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 19 12 February 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 18 4 February 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 17 28 January 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 16 22 January 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 15 15 January 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 14 7 January 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 13 2 January 2007 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 12 16 December 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 11 10 December 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 10 3 December 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 9 27 November 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 8 19 November 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 7 11 November 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 6 5 November 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 5 29 October 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 4 22 October 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 3 16 October 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 2 9 October 2006 Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 1 2 October 2006 Print Article Email Article SEND ARTICLE TO A FRIEND Your Name Friends Name Your Email Friends Email Submit Contact Kenneth More Articles Subscribe to Newsletter Enhancement to Online Profile Information World-Check is pleased to announce an enhancement to its Online solution. 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