{"id":19529,"date":"2012-03-19T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19529"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:55:13","slug":"seedy-intelligence-firm-launders-money-through-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/seedy-intelligence-firm-launders-money-through-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Seedy Intelligence Firm Launders Money Through The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19537\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"money-laundering\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/money-laundering.jpg\" alt=\"money laundering\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/money-laundering.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/money-laundering-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Prominent Bahamian attorneys were involved in setting up companies and  bank accounts used to launder the ill-gotten gains of a seedy security firm in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span>Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks  today started to publish more than five million confidential emails from  the global intelligence company Stratfor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The  emails, dated from July 2004 to late December 2011, are said to reveal  the &#8216;inner workings&#8217; of US-based firm known as the &#8216;Shadow CIA&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among  the allegations to emerge is that Stratfor&#8217;s claim to be a media  organisation providing a subscription intelligence newsletter is a front  for &#8216;running paid informants networks&#8217; and<\/span><span> &#8216;laundering those payments through the Bahamas, through Switzerland, through private credit cards&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stratfor &#8216;<\/span><span>is  monitoring Bhopal activists for Dow Chemicals, Peta activities for  Coca-Cola&#8217;, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed at a press  conference in London today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However,  what could cause the greatest embarrassment for the U.S. government is  his suggestion that information is also being gathered by paying  contacts from a<\/span><span>gencies including the U.S.  Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense  Intelligence Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has exposed the seedy practices of a global intelligence company, which allegedly involves their laundering money through The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,257,113],"class_list":["post-19529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-money-laundering","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}