• MareOfNights
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    8 months ago

    Actual snowflake behavior. It looks bad and they play it up.

    It seems to be a normal check they have to do after the money-laundering-law from 2021.

    Germany has big issues with money laundering and since 2021 they’ve been cracking down. The FIU has almost tripled the investigations since then.

    I like how the article doesn’t mention that at all and just goes for the conspiracies on fucking state level.

    Edit: I got baited by fucking hexbear, my bad.

    • notceps [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Dang just a normal check gone awry, nevermind that the whole ‘we are cracking down on money-laundering’ after what CUM-EX CUM-CUM, wonder if someone high up was involved in this whole scandal like someone who used to be mayor of Hamburg guess we’ll never know.

      Like if Germany was a country that took corruption serious and this was them being overzelous I think your argument would hold water but it doesn’t. Deutsche Bank has like a scandal every other month it seems like and all the small private banks have been as well. People directly involved in major tax fraud have seen no consequences the biggest thing you’ll see again taking an example from something like Deutsche Bank is a fine that’s lower than the amount of money they got from doing the illegal thing. The FIU isn’t cracking down on money laundering, corruption and all that what they are saying ‘You ought to give us a cut’ as long as they aren’t jailing and properly fining those institutions.

      Second Germany currently has an outright nazi-party polling at 20% (AfD with them saying nazi shit over and over and being spotted at nazi-events) a covered nazi-party polling at 30% (Union defending all their nazi friends and saying the same shit but a bit more laid back) and crypto-nazi parties polling at 15% (SPD with their Scholz who thinks that they should ‘IM GROSSEN STIEL AUSCHAFFEN’ like sorry but if 65% of the votes are like this don’t be suprised when people outside of germany say that germany has a major nazi problem. The only difference now it seems is that brown people are the subhumans.

      If germany wasn’t full throttle behind Israel, if Germany wasn’t currently being dragged in front of the ICJ for facilitating a Genocide then you could be right but they are so…

      Like get fucking real germany isn’t being normal they haven’t been normal for at least the last few years when SPD was like “We gotta get way more racist” and this isn’t me being a tankie or whatever that’s me trying to take a social democratic position. They are purposefully going after pro-palestine, pro-peace activists. Just like they’ve gone after climate activist (Remember that one where the police broke federal law?)

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      I know reading is hard for you hogs, but

      “As a public corporation, the bank is bound by public law and may therefore not arbitrarily freeze bank accounts without providing an explanation, which it did not,” Jewish Voice said in its statement.

      The organisation hired a lawyer who has confirmed that the blocking of the account is illegal and constitutes a breach of contract, Hoban said.

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        8 months ago

        Ya, they hired the lawyer, what else is he gonna say.

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          Really. How about the point made literally further down in this chain that Germany isn’t really doing shit about money laundering? Deutsche Bank literally got fined last year by the US Fed of all places for being too slow about money laundering lmao, but you’re saying they’re taking it seriously?

          Does it occur to you that MAYBE they’re using this as a punitive measure and not as a sincere effort to combat money laundering?

          Germany has been trying to outlaw BDS in various ways since 2017, they’ve been openly arresting pro Palestine protestors since Oct 7, the Christian Democratic Union (a major party that holds 19% of the seats in their parliament, the 2nd most) stated the words “free Palestine” have no place in Germany and denounced the phrase as “a war cry of an internationally active terror gang", the keffiyeh scarf has been banned by more than a few institutions in Germany…

          Is it really so outrageous to believe that the German govt is not doing this in good faith?

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Maybe if your first comment 8 months after making your account wasn’t trying to cover for illegal Zionist suppression, you’d have the experience under your belt to look at the comm before shitting out o yer mouth.

      Here at hexbear we’re hated by FUD spreaders, cuz unlike the spaces youre used to, we don’t allow unchallenged lies.

      Is there meat behind your argument? Or is this barebones vibes-argument the limit of what you’ll say; is all you’ve got to say?