Canary in the Coal Mine - Day

Monday, February 19, 2018

1:55PM - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2:44PM

Arvils Ašeradens (Ekonomikas ministrs): ABLV Bank ir sistēmiska banka
Ģirts Rungainis ("Prudentia" investīciju baņķieris): ABLV Bank nav sistēmiska banka
Māris Kučinskis (Ministru prezidents): ABLV Bank nav tik sistēmiski svarīga
Dana Reizniece-Ozola (Finanšu ministre): ABLV Bank nav sistēmiska banka
Gunta Razāne (FKTK priekšsēdētāja vietniece): ABLV banka nav sistemātiska banka
Finanšu un kapitāla tirgus komisija (FKTK) : ABLV ir sistēmiski nozīmīga banka
Eiropas Centrālā banka: ABLV Bank ir sistēmiski nozīmīga banka

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3:14PM

Interesanti, ka Eiropas Centrālā banka uzrauga šādas Latvijas kredītiestādes, kas, pēc viņu kritērjiem, ir vietēji nozīmīgas:

ABLV Bank
AS SEB banka
Swedbank AS

Savukārt, mūsu pašu Finanšu un kapitāla tirgus komisija šim sarakstam ir pievienojusi arī:

AS Citadele banka
AS Rietumu Banka
Luminor Bank AS

Sarakstu FKTK pēdējo reizi atjaunojusi 31.10.2017. Eiropas Centrālā banka savu sarakstu atjaunoja 05.12.2017.

Kā tas nākas, ka Eiropas Centrālās bankas saraksts neatspoguļo FKTK viedokli par "sistēmiski nozīmīgām iestādēm"?

Saprotams, ka uzraudzīt, piemēram, Rietumu Banku, ECB sagādātu lielas galvas sāpes, bet darbiņš pats sevi nedarīs.

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4:54PM - Laba bilde




Ilmars Rimsevics (im blauen Pullover)

Der festgenommene lettische Zentralbankchef im Sommer 2010: Am Tisch unter anderem der Chef eines russischen Rüstungsherstellers.

(Foto: AP)

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5:13PM

"Guselnikov says that Kokins did not only ask him for bribes, he wanted Norvik Bank to launder money. At one meeting, Kokins suggested that Norvik bank allow the transit of $100 million from Russia, and keep $1 million as a payment for the service. He said the transfer would be arranged by a man named German Miloush from Russia.

Kokins and Miloush were partners in business, according to corporate filings that show Kokins worked for Miloush’s BMW dealership in Riga, signing annual reports.

Miloush himself is an internationally wanted criminal. He was convicted in 2007 in Latvia for bribing politicians and fled the country. Ten years later, he was arrested on an Interpol warrant upon arriving in Cyprus, an EU member state, from Moscow."

"The data also show Rimsevics has visited Russia regularly in recent years — making at least 8 trips since 2010. Most of those were before Latvia was allowed into the EU’s currency union, the euro, in 2014 and before the invasion of the Crimean Peninsula that triggered Western sanctions against Russia. After that, the data show Rimsevics visited Russia via Belarus, a neighboring Russian ally that shares border data with Moscow.

On one trip, in 2010, Rimsevics went on what appears to be a hunting trip, according to photos obtained by the AP. In one of the photos, he is pictured with Dmitry Pilshchikov, who was then the head of the Research Institute of Information Technology, a Russia-owned military tech company later sanctioned by the U.S."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ap-exclusive-key-eu-banker-accused-of-bribery-russia-ties/2018/02/19/eb4be0ee-1590-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html?utm_term=.5dba8057d55c

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5:22PM

Ex-Secretary General of NATO Rasmussen



Šis cilvēks ir AS Norvik Bankas valdes loceklis. Vai NATO ģenerālsekretārs vēlētos būt apzināti iesaistīts krievu ieroču biznesa naudas atmazgāšanā? Retorisks jautājums.

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5:30PM - A few bad apples

Uzmanīgi lasītāji ievēros, ka pie Parex kraha vainojama ne tik daudz "neveiksmīgu apstākļu sakritība - globālā finansu krīze", kā to toreiz apgalvoja Kalvītis, vai Zviedru neapdomīgā kreditēšana Latvijā, kas uzkarsēja vietējo ekonomiku, kā to toreiz apgalvoja Dombrovskis, bet gan prozaiski vienkāršāks iemesls - Parex bija t.s. kabatas banka, kas izsniedza kredītus ar bankas īpašniekiem pietuvinātām personām (atcerēsimies arīdzan Antonova Krājbanku). Šos aizdevumus nekad nebija plānots atmaksāt:

"Shortly after Magnitsky was imprisoned, a Latvian bank called Parex became a funnel for money laundering and easy cash for politically-connected individuals, according to documents in the so-called Panama Papers, a global investigative series. Among many murky deals was a $100 million loan, against no collateral, to Zhan Khudainatov, the CEO of Russian gas company Severneft, and his brother Eduard, deputy CEO and later CEO of Russian state oil company Rosneft. The Khudainatovs defaulted on $78 million to Parex despite selling assets for $403 million in 2012, according to the OCCRP.

This defaulted loan, on top of others, contributed to Parex bank’s failure in 2008. The Latvian state rescued the bank at a cost of about $1 billion dollars, a colossal sum for Latvia. It was one of the biggest costs in a national financial crisis that increased Latvia’s national debt burden six-fold, required a bailout from the International Monetary Fund and ultimately saw a tenth of the population emigrate in search of a better life.

John Christmas, a former employee of Parex bank, said he alerted Rimsevics as back as 2005, detailing how Parex was operating illegally and not carrying out proper checks on its loans.

“They refused to talk to me,” he says. Instead, he says he began receiving death threats and had to flee the country."

Ko mēs te varam saskatīt? Valsts nozagšana - signālus apzināti ignorēja gan Latvijas Bankas prezidents, gan prokuratūra - šīs institūcijas bija (ir?) nopirktas. [Ko nu tur par politiķiem - tas pats stāsts. Partijas tieši un netieši finansēja šie paši šeftmaņi baņķieri. Nopirkti cilvēki nav jau tikai monetāri - varu saderēt, ka izmantoti visi instrumenti, ieskaitot nāves draudus. Šīs nav joka spēlītes.]

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