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Nov. 18, 2023 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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The KGB Banker Blows The Whistle With John Christmas | MSOM Ep. 848

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Welcome to Making Sense of the Madness.
I am Jason Burmese and for the next hour we're going to be talking about international banking corruption, the KGB, who it and so much more with the KGB banker and whistleblower John Christmas and his assistant.
Buckle up and get ready to make sense of the madness.
And on a night of breaking news right now, we have even more to tell you about turns out this weekend.
President Joe Biden was interviewed in the special counsel investigation into classified documents.
Now, Robert Hurr, who is the special counsel in this case, is looking into how classified documents ended up at Biden's home and an office.
A White House spokesman says the interview was totally voluntary and took place at the White House yesterday and Monday.
The interview was reportedly arranged weeks ago, but ended up taking place as Biden was focused on fighting in the Middle East.
Thanks for watching.
So as you can see, this Biden classified documents case is going forward.
It's on the back burner and I'm paying attention to it.
Why?
Because ultimately, I think this is how they get rid of him and have him step down with any type without any type of real prosecution or accountability.
That's how these things work, folks.
Notice how they portrayed him as giving this information voluntarily.
This was a sound bite in the media and barely discussed, not on the front pages.
And it's something that we're going to continue to watch here at Making Sense of the Madness as it develops because the mainstream seems to be placating it and ignoring it.
Now, on to the main part of the show.
This one's down some rabbit holes, guys, and it begins a couple decades ago with a bank called Parix in where?
Latvia.
So I'm not going to lie, this one is very intricate.
It's important.
It shows how these cartels maneuver money and use the banking systems to enrich themselves while causing havoc throughout the world.
John Christmas and his assistant are joining us.
John is the whistleblower from Parax Bank and the author of the fictional account, KGB Banker.
John, thank you so much for joining us.
Take us into your situation in the beginning when you start seeing corruption at your workplace.
Well, first, thank you, Jason, for inviting me to Making Sense of the Madness.
It's great to have the opportunity to enlighten your viewers about yet another tie-in between Biden and between organized crime emanating from Russia and poisoning Europe and poisoning the United States as well.
So my situation is I'm from Chicago and I was a banker and I'm partly Latvian.
I have Latvian roots.
And I got recruited to work for this bank called Parix that used to be the largest bank in Latvia.
I arrived there thinking that this was a great plum job that I had to be Western representative for the largest bank in the country.
And then it turned into like a plot from a thriller novel, which is why I have a thriller novel now, KGB Banker.
I didn't have to stray too far from what really was happening to get a story that was about spies and intrigue and fraud and corruption and crime and all of this stuff.
Anyway, the multi-step process, first of all, while I was working for this bank in Latvia, I figured out that it was connected with the top crooks in the Kremlin and that they had tens of thousands of money laundering accounts that were shell companies holding accounts at the bank in U.S. dollars and using United States dollar correspondent accounts to move the money around.
I also found out that there were insiders embezzling the assets of the bank by making fake loans to themselves.
So I turned whistleblower, gave information to the Latvian authorities who decided to fight me and also gave information to the FBI who decided to do nothing.
It's tough with the FBI because you give them information and then you sort of wait forever for them to do something and you never know if they're going to do something or not or what the reason is because they don't give you any feedback.
But this started off my battle with a development bank that's partly funded by United States taxpayers.
So talk about that development bank.
I believe that's the European Development Bank.
It's called the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and it's approximately 10% owned by United States taxpayers.
It's also owned by approximately 70 other countries, which have all contributed capital to this bank.
Now, the idea of this bank was that it was supposed to help build new democracies and new economies after the Iron Curtain fell or after the Soviet Union broke up and the nations of the Warsaw Pact and the nations of the Soviet Union became independent countries.
The idea was that this development bank was going to be the West's way to help all these countries to develop themselves properly.
And what actually happened is it turned into more corruption and more empowerment of the same corrupt bad guys who controlled these countries previously.
And in my case, what it was is that the assets of this bank had been embezzled.
I gave the information to authorities.
The EBRD specialists came in.
They said that they studied the bank and that the assets were good and that they announced that they spent a large amount of money to buy one quarter of the bank.
And then later it turned out that my whistleblowing was absolutely correct, that the assets I flagged as being insider loans were lost money and the bank was insolvent at the time that this development bank bought a share.
But then leaked out information that it wasn't a real purchase.
That what happened is the EBRD had backroom meetings with corrupt people in the Latvian government and And they made a cover-up where the Latvian government secretly paid the EBRD to pretend to invest in the bank.
So this kicked off a whole series of other banks where similar frauds happened.
This is still going today with, I can list out the countries later of the banks where it still is going today, including one is the direct successor to PAREX, which is in Latvia, but there are some other countries as well.
And essentially what we have is a group of Eastern European banks which are totally corrupt and are linked to the Kremlin, which have access to United States dollar correspondent accounts, and which also can freely operate fraudulently where they have fake assets, where their loan portfolio represents embezzled money.
But for now, the public doesn't know because this development bank is covering it up.
So let's talk about that.
How is the money moving and these investigations happening?
And yet, I believe you have the government saying that these are classified meetings.
And basically, the meetings are occurring, but what's happening in the meetings aren't what you're saying they are.
And they're even telling journalists who have reported on your story or interviewed you that that is the case.
It has been investigated, but there are classified dealings that we can't discuss.
Well, there's some funny things, contradictions from different sources within governments.
So the evidence that came out later, which shows that I'm absolutely correct, comes from an organization called Eurostat, which is the official statistics office for the European Union.
Now, one of the functions of Eurostat is to ensure that when the countries in the European Union report their national debts, that the numbers they report are true numbers.
Now, in this case, Latvia falsified its national debt because it had a huge liability that it didn't admit to, which is that the assets of the largest bank in the country had been embezzled and that they had to pay back the creditors.
And also that they had an obligation to the EBRD to pay them for supposedly making this investment, which therefore was a fake investment, because if you give someone the money to buy something, it's not the same as them really investing.
So that's where the contradiction came in, where the Latvian government was saying one thing and the EBRD was saying one thing, that nothing happened at that bank and everything is fine.
Then journalists started reporting on fake assets at the bank, which happened to be the same assets that I had flagged.
And meanwhile, Eurostat came out with two different reports because first there was one about Parex Bank and later about the PAREX successor, which is Citadele Bank.
In the Eurostat reports, they reported that they were allowing Latvia to keep part of its national debt confidential was the word that they used in order to help with this cover-up.
And this to me seemed insane because the whole function of Eurostat, I mean, this could give you an opinion about governance in the European Union generally, that the purpose of Eurostat is supposed to be to make the national debt disclosures correct, and yet they gave a waiver to Latvia to allow them to keep part of their national debt, about half of it, confidential.
So before we move into modern day corruption, how this is all happening, let's talk about retaliation.
How, you know, because on one end, PAREX and others say, hey, we love whistleblowers.
Come on forward.
We're going to protect them.
On the other end, once somebody does come forward, they demonize that person, come after them, and there's even some darker things, let's say, that occurred afterwards.
Let's talk about that.
I honestly understand they hired a hitman to kill me.
I mean, I was informed that of a colleague.
The colleague told me about another person who had been killed by the bank already, gave me the name of the bank's main hitman, and told me that they were looking for my car, looking where I lived and looking for my car in Latvia.
And thankfully, I was not in Latvia anymore.
I mean, I planned it out that when I did the whistleblowing, I left the country also.
But, you know, this is something where I would think you would wake up some people, like at the development bank, at the EBRD.
I mean, they're covering up a fraud where they, or they're covering up a whistleblowing where the whistleblower actually, you know, escaped with his life out of the country.
And now they're covering it up.
And what's the purpose for that?
And another scary thing is this bank, after the whistleblowing, got named.
There was one country in the world which carried out a prosecution against an organization called the Tombovskaya Mafia of St. Petersburg, which was Vladimir Putin's original mafia before he became president of Russia.
And this bank was named in the Spanish prosecution of this mafia as being their main money laundering bank.
And this was a mafia that was dealing in heroin and cocaine on industrial levels across many countries.
They were trafficking sex slaves on an industrial level across many countries.
They were selling weapons to rogue terrorist groups.
These, you know, they're serious criminals we're dealing with who kill people as a normal part of their activities.
And here we have this development bank, which is partly funded by U.S. terrorists, U.S. taxpayers, which is protecting the terrorists.
It's really crazy.
I mean, the system seems to be broken on so many levels, but when you look at the actual upper echelon criminal cartels that we're dealing with within government, whether it be in Russia or even the United States, it does make a lot of sense.
I'd like to bring in your media assistant and really have her add to the things that you've revealed in your case up until this point.
Yes, I would like to add that basically one of the issues here as well is the support of not only members of the EBRD, but also certain high-level political figures and lobbyists in that.
And also the fact that, I mean, obviously certain banks, as part of regulatory requirements, they're being audited and they're being audited by large firms such as the big four, such as Deloitte and Ernst ⁇ Young, who basically form an audit opinion, which is then passed on to the purchaser and then so on.
And they are supposed to confirm, for example, whether assets of the bank are worth something or worth nothing.
I mean, as we know, in large fraud cases, and I mean, we can talk about Germany and we can talk about certain high-level other financial frauds and Enron, for example.
The liberal media portrayed this as everything being fine for the time being.
But when actually things were uncovered, it turned out that basically the auditor of these institutions was basically reporting wrong and they weren't really auditing and they weren't really doing their jobs.
For instance, I mean, in the issue of PAREX, I mean, the facts, why would the assets be bad?
It's basically they're basically linked to oligarchs.
Solaris Scandal Revealed 00:16:55
They just give loans to oligarchs.
And obviously, this would never be paid back.
So something like that, somebody buying the bank should know and should investigate and should do a proper due diligence.
However, this wasn't done and this not being done is basically one of the reasons is having fake audited financials, having the support of certain politicians, certain high-level figures, and so on.
We've got to take a break.
When we come back, I want to talk about some of those politicians and the lobbyists that surround them.
It's making sense of the madness.
The book is KGB Banker.
The website is LawlessLatvia.com, and we'll be back after this.
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We are back with whistleblower John Christmas and his assistant.
John, tell us how Sally Painter, a DC lobbyist, works into this scenario.
Okay, this is what your audience is going to love.
Now we get to the United States connections.
So when I was working at PAREX, just before my whistleblowing, PAX hired this lobbyist in Washington named Sally Painter.
The issue was that PAX was always fearful.
They told me openly they were always fearful that their United States dollar correspondent accounts would get closed.
It's a risk for an American bank to provide a foreign bank with a United States dollar correspondent account, which is a thing that's necessary for any foreign bank to be able to deal in dollars to make dollar transfers or receive dollar transfers.
So I was told that this was because of superstitions that we were the mafia, even though they weren't, although I found out later that they were actually the mafia.
But what this Sally Painter was supposed to do for PAX is she was supposed to talk to people in Washington and convince them that everything was okay at Parex and that therefore PAREX should not get sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, that PAREX should not have any problems with the U.S. government because everything was okay there.
So I met her and originally we were like on the same team, both of us promoting PAREX, except then I started learning all these bad things about PAREX, for example, loans to insiders.
And these were not just any insiders.
These were people with, I mean, oligarchs with reputations of killing people and stealing billions of dollars.
These are the sorts of people we were making loans to.
And I got really concerned about this and I did this whistleblowing and I would have expected her to drop PAREX upon finding out what's really going on there.
But something amazing is that she decided to stick with PAREX and to defend PAREX against my whistleblowing, thus effectively helping the oligarchs to steal all the money, helping with the cover-up and allowing their money laundering system to keep continuing.
And just the bankers moved over to mostly to Citadel A Bank, but to some other notorious banks as well and kept laundering more money for the Putin regime.
So she basically helped them to do that.
She got employed later by the Latvian government itself, not just by PAREX, but by the Latvian government, which was in this cover-up.
Also, she got employed by a bank called ABLV, which was another Latvian bank, also caught up with all the Putin money laundering.
This included helping to loot out Ukraine and helping to loot out Moldova as well, Moldova being also a threatened country, which is right next to Ukraine.
So she was sort of involved with all of this stuff.
And then the thing which came up, which I thought finally I can get this story into the news in America, is that she got connected to Hunter Biden.
It turns out that Hunter Biden was one of her close people she works with, and that she's the one who arranged with Burisma to get him on the board of Burisma.
There were other things that came up with her as well.
She got a former CIA director to serve on the board of directors of another mafia bank in Latvia.
But the main thing that she got caught up with is her or her lobbying company, Blue Star Strategies, got subpoena in the investigations which are going on around Burisma and Hunter Biden.
So here I thought now it's connected to the Democrats.
Sally Painter herself, all the time talking about her connections to the Democrats, boasting of her friendship to the Clintons and the Bidens, that now she finally got nailed for something.
So you have that element of the U.S. government.
How does Solaris and John Kerry work into the situation?
Okay.
Solaris bus was just an example of, I suppose it's another example of the failure of our justice system in the United States.
One detail from my whistleblowing, this was not the biggest thing, it was maybe 5% of my whistleblowing, was about a corrupt deal involving Parex Bank and the Latvian government about selling buses from a Polish company called Solaris to Latvia.
So I was interviewed by the FBI after my whistleblowing, and although they didn't really do anything, maybe you could say that they did something with regard to this bus case.
Exactly what they did is they announced a few years later, I mean, the United States Department of Justice and FBI announced, that they had figured out that Daimler and Solaris, Daimler being a German company, but it has a big presence in the United States, that Daimler and Solaris were both paying bribes in Riga, Latvia, and in Moscow, Russia, and in a bunch of other places as well,
with my bank intermediary for some of this, to sell buses.
And what the DOJ did is they, as they often do, instead of deciding to prosecute any individuals, they just put a penalty against the shareholders of Daimler.
And in fact, they didn't do anything to Solaris.
They mentioned Solaris in the report for also doing the same thing, but they didn't actually do anything to Solaris.
And then what the Department of Justice did is they sent the information to the Latvian government so that the Latvian government themselves could prosecute the politicians who were receiving the kickbacks from Daimler and Solaris.
And then they just trusted that the Latvians would do this.
Now, as it turned out, Latvia did not prosecute anybody.
They came up with every excuse they could think of to prosecute nobody until the statute of limitations on all this ran out.
And the amount of the bribes kept getting larger.
It got caught twice more.
It got caught or once more, I should say.
It got caught by the Polish government.
So Solaris is actually located in Poland.
And the Polish government, some years later, caught the same thing, that there were bribes going from Solaris bus to the Latvian government.
And again, Latvia did nothing.
And this is an example of the United States really dropping the ball on something because they caught this huge crime.
They could have exposed the top corrupt people in the Latvian government.
They did not.
The only thing they did is they put a penalty against Daimler shareholders.
You know, probably half of the Daimler shareholders are Americans because it's Daimler Chrysler.
So half of the, there's probably 1 million German pensioners and 1 million American pensioners as well who have an exposure to Daimler.
They all got punished for this and none of them had anything to do with the crime.
And the DOJ and the FBI let all the criminals go free.
So the same corrupt people continue to run Latvia today.
So that was one bad thing.
And then you can let me know what you think about that.
Then I can move on to the last part, which is about Tim Collins and John Kerry.
No, just jump into John Kerry.
I'm sure my audience is frothing at the mouth.
Okay.
So anyway, there's this successor bank to Parex.
The successor bank to Parex is called Citadele.
And Citadele is supposedly cleaned up.
Although after Parex did all this money laundering for Putin and they had tens of thousands of shell company accounts that were linked to the Russian mob, the cleanup of Parex consisted of basically doing nothing except chasing me out of the country.
I mean, all the people who were doing the money laundering and the embezzlement work stayed there.
And the bank renamed itself Citadele Bank.
And it claimed a new ownership.
So the new ownership is that it's partly owned by the EBRD.
However, again, for the second time, first time with PAREX and second time with Citadele, there's a report from Eurostat which shows that the government of Latvia is secretly paying the EBRD to act as an investor in Citadele, but the EBRD does not have any money at risk.
They did not actually really invest in Citadele.
So that's one problem right there.
And even the fact that nobody in Latvia will talk about this, it's an off-limits topic.
I mean, it is written in a Eurostat report that's on the Eurostat website, but for some reason, everybody in Latvia is scared to death to talk about it.
Keep in mind also while this goes on that the United States supports Latvia financially.
Latvia is all the time asking for money from the United States, from Europe as well.
And to me, to let these kinds of things slide by while the United States taxpayers continue to give them money, I would say it should be totally unacceptable.
I mean, they should have honest accounts and they should crack down on corruption if they want to receive grant or loan money.
So what they did besides putting EBRD as one of the shareholders of Citadele is they installed a shareholder for the rest of the sheriffs of Citadele, who was an American billionaire.
Now, this American billionaire did not make the highest offer to buy the other half of Citadele, and whether he really made any offer at all is in question, or whether he was paid himself to act as an investor.
But Tim Collins, who is not a politician, he runs an investment fund called Ripplewood Holdings.
He invested in the other part of Citadele Bank, which allowed Citadele Bank to start saying that it's an American bank.
One example of this is journalists tell me, journalists from London, for example, who study Russian mafia money movements, catch money going through Citadele Bank connected with large scams.
And they'll ask the management at Citadele Bank if they, you know, how did this money from this Russian mafia project end up going through Citadele Bank?
And the people at Citadele all say, oh, it's impossible that that could have happened because we're not a Russian bank.
We're in fact an American bank.
We're owned by the EBRD and we're owned by Tim Collins and he's a respectable American.
So it's impossible that the evidence that you have could be correct.
That's how the Russians set up an American to be the front for something like this.
How much Collins knows and doesn't know, I'm not sure.
He's silent about it.
But it's highly likely that his purchase of the bank was not transparent either.
That it's quite likely it's something similar to what the EBRD has done, where Latvia is compensating him to be an investor rather than that he paid to be an investor.
And at this point, I think they're really in a jam because the EBRD and Tim Collins still are the shareholders.
And Citadele has been recently caught connected to a massive money laundering scam.
I think the largest ever discovered, which is over $200 billion laundered through shell company accounts at an Estonian branch of a Danish bank.
It's the Danske Bank branch in Estonia, where apparently a sale of Russian mobsters got inserted into that branch.
And they were connected with Citadele Bank in two important ways through shell companies that were organizing this were set up by the top money launderer at Citadele Bank.
And this $200 plus billion dollars got connected to the Putin family.
So there were Putins who were the ones who were sending the money through that network, apparently using Democrat Tim Collins and using the development bank, the EBRD, as their cover for moving Putin family money.
And then John Kerry.
Go ahead.
So John Kerry is friends with Tim Collins, and John Kerry helped to negotiate this deal between Collins and the Latvian government.
John Kerry three times flew to Latvia for personal discussions with the prime minister of Latvia to discuss Tim Collins' investment in Citadele Bank.
On the surface of it, that's an unimportant investment.
There's no reason why any senior person from the United States government should be at all interested in it.
It's maybe the fourth largest retail bank in Latvia, which is a small country.
And according to itself, it's just doing home loans and stuff.
So why would a senior person from the American government fly three times to this country to meet the prime minister to discuss this investment unless something much bigger than what it seems on the surface is going on at this bank?
Well, I often talk about John Kerry because clearly he's running much more of the country than Joe Biden is at this point, especially our foreign policy and has been a globalist bagman for decades, really an establishment figure for a long time.
We've got to take another break when we come back.
I want to talk about that $200 billion and how that network works.
It is Making Sense of the Madness back after this.
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Shady Citibank Investments 00:10:41
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We're with John Christmas and his assistant.
And before we go into the $200 billion, Estonia, and really what that means and where that money is distributed, I wanted your assistant to add to anything in the previous segment she thinks important.
Sure.
Basically, I mean, talking about Tim Collins and John Kerry, it seems that, I mean, it's not just Latvia where they're partners, but also, I mean, talking about deals together, they are involved in a number of projects in Eastern Europe, again, in certain high-risk countries, for instance, Serbia, where they tried to purchase a telecom in 2019.
So there are other areas where they collaborate together.
And I mean, as John pointed out, for such a senior person from the U.S. government, it makes no sense for them to be so involved in such a small country.
But I believe the picture is much bigger here.
And basically, there are a number of projects and all linked to these shady banks or shady enterprises, which are basically worthless, but they are making investments.
And I mean, also aligned to the EBRD pretending that these investments are worth something.
When in reality, I mean, it could be, as John explained, that they're actually getting kickbacks.
And actually, for them to invest in such entities, there's just no purpose for that type of investment.
So you've really taken us from the beginning of the 2000s through a couple of decades almost into the present with this Estonian money laundering.
Tell us how that actually operates.
When we're talking $200 billion, that is a large amount of scratch, my friend.
Oh, sure.
It's far more money than the size of the Estonian economy and the Latvian economy put together.
Something about that gets into the importance for the Russian mob or for Putin for having United States dollar correspondent accounts.
And this is something that people who are not bankers rarely would think about.
But when foreign banks are transferring dollars, they need to transfer them through a correspondent account in New York.
The particular bank that comes up most often in this story is Citibank because Citibank, for one thing, Tim Collins is on the board of directors of Citibank.
So he's duping his own bank where he's on the board of directors that Citadel Bank is clean so that they get a US dollar correspondent account so Putin can run as many billions as he wants through Citibank through that correspondent account for Citibank of Latvia.
There are other ones as well, Serbia, where Kerry and Collins were trying to get involved with the telecom company.
I'm not sure what became of that, but they were visiting together there.
In that country, the EBRD did a similar deal where it overpaid to buy a stake in an insolvent bank and helped that bank to get a USD correspondent account.
They did the same in Slovenia.
They did the same in Armenia.
They did the same in Lithuania and Cyprus.
The list goes on of the banks where the EBRD took a shareholding in a bank that is reputed to be insolvent and run by the mob.
And they, I believe that the reason why Citibank is justifying offering correspondent accounts to these banks, since this is very dangerous for Citibank, they could get sued or prosecuted for enormous amounts of money for running Putin's money through their correspondent accounts.
It appears to be something about the EBRD, and then therefore it appears to be something about Collins and Kerry.
They for sure at least know that the EBRD investment in Citadele is fake.
So they should know that the EBRD investments in the other countries are also likely fake.
And then they should give some explanation why Citibank is providing correspondent account services to all these Eastern European banks with fake ownership that are linked to the Kremlin.
Citibank should stop doing this immediately.
And I think that Collins and Kerry are keeping this secret from Citibank.
Explain to the audience how these are fake investments, because essentially deals are made where they're going to invest in properties that don't even exist, and then they're going to be paid back in full for that investment after the fact.
But all of these dealings are kept secret.
Is that how it works?
Well, there's different ways to do this.
And also, I'll get back to the 200 billion, which you had asked about.
I got carried away on the other topic.
But a bank, the shareholding, the shareholders of a bank are supposed to be publicly known.
You're not supposed to set up a bank in any country, in any country with international compliant rules to set up a bank where the shareholders are not really the people who they say that they are.
Like, for example, the people who say that they're the shareholders didn't really invest their own money because they received that money from some shady source.
And then they use that money and they actually act as nominees for whoever secretly gave the money to them.
So it's like with buying any stock, if your viewers invest in any kind of a stock, I mean, it's one thing to be a normal investor and to invest something, let's say, in Apple stock.
And then if the Apple stock goes up or goes down, you either win or you lose.
That's how a normal investment is done.
But the way these EBRD secretly guaranteed and secretly reversible bank investments work is that even if the bank is looted or even if the bank already was looted before the investor even made the investment, the investor, which is this corrupt development bank, gets a huge profit and not just a small profit, but like doubles its money for pretending to have invested, essentially.
Or, you know, these go on with crypto scams all the time, where if you start a cryptocurrency and you want to convince people to invest into your cryptocurrency, that you might try to kick things off by secretly paying somebody to pretend to buy your cryptocurrency at a very high price and then hope to fool the market that the cryptocurrency is actually worth that much, even though the buyer really was not spending his own money.
It's like that kind of trick.
So then the 200 billion, what is this moving through right now?
Well, that 200 billion, there were many shell companies involved in that.
The shell companies, by the way, the location where a shell company is registered and the location where its bank account is do not necessarily have to be the same country.
So you could have shell companies registered in dozens of countries.
The Russian mafia does this systematically.
They set up groups of people.
Some of them have been connected with PAREX in the past in various jurisdictions where they think the laws are good for setting up the shell company.
Sometimes it's a state in the United States or sometimes it's a different country where they set up the shell company accounts.
The shell company, where they sell up, where they register the shell companies themselves, I should say.
Then the shell companies become holders of bank accounts.
So if you look at the records of that bank, you can't tell the name of the person who owns that account.
You only see the name of the shell company and then the true owner behind the shell company.
You don't know who that is.
Then can transfer all this money around.
If the money is denominated in United States dollars, as was the money going through the Donske Estonia branch, it needs to be transferred around using U.S. dollar correspondent accounts.
So Donske Bank of Denmark had several of these, and the clients at their rogue branch in Estonia, by the way, that's not going to be, the secrets that went on there are never going to be exposed because the head of that rogue cell either killed himself or got killed shortly after the whistleblowing exposed that the 200 billion went through there.
The idea is that this money is going between all these shell companies, which appear to be the mafia or the KGB or the Russian government or some combination of this.
I mean, it's still not fully known what goes on, but an enormous amount of money, $200 billion went between those companies and the money was processed through correspondent accounts with several different United States banks that had offered the correspondent account services to Donske Bank of Denmark and then got unknowingly used to have all these transfers go through, some of which actually had Putin family name on the transfers.
So yeah, that's the sort of thing that the United States wants to crack down on.
And then it's ironic that John Kerry appears to be fighting against the United States government in that sense, where the United States Treasury does not want Vladimir Putin to use dollar accounts.
They don't want him to be able to use dollars at all.
However, this institution, the EBRD Development Bank, and Kerry's friend Collins are involved with these banks that have the false ownership so that they can trick Citibank into providing the US dollar correspondent accounts, and then they can send 200 billion through this.
To give an idea of the figures, oh, I understand that Russia previous to the war used to export approximately $300 billion per year of oil and gas.
So that's what the KGB or the Russian intelligence and Putin's friends have to skim off of.
Russia's Oil Skim Scheme 00:02:35
It's $300 billion every year, and they can skim a chunk of that every year.
And then that's the money that they can, I mean, that's the largest single source of money that they can send through these accounts.
And the reason it ends up being in dollars, or it used to be with the war, it's some things have changed.
But it used to be that this money was all in dollars because it's been the custom for many years that all oil and gas trades inside and outside the United States are denominated in dollars.
Yeah, the old petro dollar on its dying days.
We've got to take a break.
When we come back, I want to talk about how the media has treated this story and how they continue to really hold water for the establishment, establishment politicians.
It is making sense of the madness.
We'll be back after this.
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We are back with John Christmas.
The book is KGB Banker and the website is lawlesslatvia.com.
I encourage people to go to that website if they want to see any of the documentation that's been discussed throughout the broadcast.
And that brings me to my next question, John.
How has the media treated your case and the surrounding cases that we just talked about?
Well, I've had big problems with the media.
I can say that I've given this information to hundreds of journalists and I can count on my fingers how many of them really saw that this is something important and they need to publish, write and publish articles about this.
Media Narratives vs. Reality 00:06:56
So there are some brave journalists who are covering it and some smart journalists as well, because some journalists, they just can't understand the fraud.
I mean, the whole concept of paying somebody to pretend to buy something from yourself, that that doesn't really make sense to them.
This goes into perhaps liberal thinking and a challenge that the United States has also with the mainstream media there is there are certain narratives that people follow and some people let the narratives overpower common sense.
So I'll talk to a journalist.
The journalists, most of the journalists these days appear to be liberals.
I'll explain the EBRD fraud and they'll say that they don't understand why that should be considered to be a fraud.
And then I'll bring up a similar fraud.
For example, Enron did some of their accounting in this way.
There was also a famous case with Greece, where when Greece entered the Euro currency, it falsified its national debt in cooperation with Goldman Sachs through an intransparent accounting that got reversed afterward.
And then the Greek economy collapsed and they had riots and it was really terrible.
So there was one example with Enron, one example with Goldman Sachs.
There was also an example in the most recent financial crisis in 2008, which is when one of the largest lenders in Italy collapsed, however, temporarily covered up that they had lost so much money by entering into a tricky reversible deal with Deutsche Bank.
So those institutions, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Enron, are generally held to be the most evil organizations on earth.
Enron's no longer with us, but with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, that those are evil organizations because those people are all greedy and looking for profits, right?
Then we get to the EBRD, and the EBRD is fundamentally different, or at least so they say.
What the people at the EBRD say is that they don't care about profits and they're trying to save the world.
And this fits with the liberal narrative.
And then I point out, I say, I mean, journalists tell me straight out.
They say, listen, when Deutsche Bank does this, this is criminal.
And when the EBRD does this, this is okay, because the people at Deutsche Bank are greedy and the people at the EBRD are altruists.
So it's okay for the EBRD to do this.
And I say, well, it doesn't make a difference.
I said, it still is fraud.
Whether the fraudster says that he's an altruist or not shouldn't make any difference.
But anyway, most of the journalists go along with this, that they go along with the narrative from the EBRD, that they're helping everybody with these transactions.
They leave out important details, like they always mentioned that they're investing into countries, but never mentioned that they're taking much larger money back out of these countries through the intransparent reversals of the deals.
But that gets a lot of people stuck, that they just can't see how the EBRD can do wrong because according to the EBRD website, they've written all these beautiful liberal ideas all over their website, how they love equality and they're empowering all the people and they love democracy.
And this is what the EBRD is saying.
They even say that they don't care about profits.
And yeah, so then they make an intransparent deal where they get 100% profit paid by people who got cheated and robbed.
And somehow the last detail escapes the liberal journalists.
I'd like to go to your assistant and get her opinion on the media scape right now.
Yes, as John is basically stating, I mean, liberal media portrays one image in the newspapers and all over the media, for instance.
I mean, they can say that Kerry is anti-Russia, but in reality, I mean, he has also links to Lavrov.
The media can say that certain institutions like Enron or WireCard were good.
Nobody wanted to, for instance, report on WireCard.
But ultimately, I mean, there were people who insisted that it was fraud and ultimately it turned out to be fraud.
So the reality is that certain liberal media wants to portray one image of certain facts, including how Latvia is portraying the media and how nobody believes that Latvia is high-risk and that these banks are acting on behalf of Russia and even nowadays even worse because they are avoiding sanctions.
But I mean, everybody who works in AML, everybody who works in financial crime would know that actually Latvia is high risk.
And there are a lot of people in Latvia who basically act as frontmen.
And they, I mean, themselves might not be criminals, but they basically act on behalf or pretend or are nominees of, for instance, sanctioned companies, sanctioned people, sanctioned entities, sanctioned vessels.
So this is where, I mean, there should be an understanding that Latvia can act as a bridge not only to Europe, but also to the US.
And that's very dangerous, especially when we have such high-level political people involved in there as well.
Absolutely.
Again, it seems like the media-military-industrial complex is there to protect these people like Kerry and others.
We got to take one more break when we come back.
We're going to talk to John Christmas about KGB Banker and the book that's fiction, but not so fictitious after all.
Final segment
Russia, Ukraine, and Suspense 00:07:42
with John Christmas.
And John, you used fiction as a vehicle to tell a story that is not so fictitious.
So why did you make that decision?
And what are some of the differences between the real life scenarios in the book?
Well, something that happened while I was already outside of Latvia hiding is that I had mutual friends together with an American guy who was still in Latvia.
And he is a brilliant author.
His name is William Burton McCormick.
And he had just published a historical fiction novel about Latvia and Russia and Ukraine.
And he had really immersed himself in the area.
He's lived for years in all three countries in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia.
And he's really gotten to know the people and tried to understand as well as any American can what goes on in that part of the world.
And we got introduced to each other because people were telling him that my real story would make a dynamite thriller book.
And we met up in London at the Latvian house in London and we spent a week brainstorming about ideas for a thriller novel.
And we hit a home run with this one.
My plot, the financial plot, is a simplification of what really happened there.
And then he's a master of suspense.
So he put together the suspense.
He really captured with certain characters.
There's an investigative journalist who everybody loves.
There's an oligarch character who's really an over-the-top oligarch who sits on the border between Russia and Ukraine and makes deals between the secret powerful people.
We really captured the area we captured.
It's scary.
It has romance.
We did a great job with this book.
We won two awards for it also.
We won Best Conspiracy Thriller of 2022 from Best Thrillers, and we won the Royal Dragonfly Award for Best Novel of 2022.
So we have a great product here.
And for me, it partly makes up for the mainstream media being kind to the EBRD and sheltering them from the criticism that they should have or sheltering them from exposing the evidence against them.
That what I've got out now as a fiction novel exposes the EBRD in a way that the left-wing mainstream media will not expose them.
So anyway, this is something where you can learn about real political and banking scams going on and you can have a great thrill from reading it as well.
Who knows?
Maybe they make it into a movie one day.
We got a little under five minutes left in the broadcast.
John, what would you and your assistant like to leave my audience with?
Well, I can say first quickly that, yeah, kgbbanker.com, that's where you can read about the thriller novel, or you can look on Amazon for that.
LawlessLatvia.com is the nonfiction.
That's where the real scams and the real evidence are posted, including the link, for example, to the Jungx 2 Latvian documentary, which has footage of John Kerry lying about his connection to all of this.
It also has a letter to Tim Collins, which again exposes some of the connections to the Democrats.
So the real info is on lawlesslatvia.com and the books on kgbbanker.com.
And thank you very much.
And sorry, it can say what she wants to say.
I think it's important for your viewers to understand and sometimes link the dots because one individual is not, I mean, as I said, all these individuals and all these events and countries are linked and basically understanding that, I mean, what the mainstream media portrays about certain individuals or events is not always the truth.
They need to look a little bit deeper in us to understand the real facts.
That's what I would ask.
Well, I think that is utterly important because a lot of these things are going beyond nation states.
And this is how international banking crime cartels and corrupt government officials work.
I want to thank you guys so much for joining us.
KGBBanker.com is where you can check out the book.
And lawlesslatvia.com is where you can check out all the documentation that we went over today.
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