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As we have long noted, the central banks are, for the most part, “legal” crime syndicates that enrich the rich at the cost of We the Little People of Slavelandia.
The scope of their wealth and how they hide their dirty money in their mansions and investments that span across the globe was further detailed in the release of the Pandora Papers which we reported on 5 October in the Trends Journal (See “AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM: A CRIME SYNDICATE?”)
And now, this past Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the governor of the National Bank of Slovakia (the nation’s central bank), Peter Kazimir, is facing corruption charges in a case, still under investigation, in which he is alleged to have served as the “courier” of a bribe proffered to a tax official.
The charges were filed on 8 October.
The case is part of a broader series of investigations of alleged corruption among that country’s business and political elite; the impetus for the investigations were the murders, in 2018, of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova; their slayings were linked to Kuciak’s investigations of corruption.
Kazimir served as Slovakia’s finance minister before assuming control of the bank in 2019; he is also a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank.
For his part, Kazimir has issued a strong denial of the allegations, claiming he did “not feel guilty of committing any criminal acts” and is “unaware of having violated any law.” His lawyer promised that Kazimir would soon be challenging the accusation and filing a complaint.
TRENDPOST: It would be easy to be cynical and view this as just another example of what might seem like an epidemic of corruption and “ethical challenges” in the financial industry. It’s important to maintain a respect for the presumption of innocence, and to strive to not let one’s view of this case be influenced by stories like these:
- “FINANCIAL INDUSTRY FINES SET RECORD” (10 Nov 2020)
- “WELLS FARGO: THE BANKSTER GANG” (5 Oct 2021)
- “FED ETHICS? FU!” (21 Sep 2021)
- “FINANCIAL EXECUTIVE EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION” (2 Feb 2021)