A banking compliance officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the transaction pattern should have triggered a suspicious transaction report under the bank's own thresholds but was never filed.
A trade-based laundering pattern emerges from customs data: invoices for goods valued at 4,917 thousand dollars were cleared against shipments that port records show never arrived.
Property records in United States Minor Outlying Islands show the same beneficial owner behind two "unrelated" companies used at different stages of the transfer chain.
Corporate registry searches in Lebanon show the receiving entity was incorporated one week before the first transfer and has filed no financial statements since.
A trade-based laundering pattern emerges from customs data: invoices for goods valued at 6,601 thousand dollars were cleared against shipments that port records show never arrived.
A trade-based laundering pattern emerges from customs data: invoices for goods valued at 1,131 thousand dollars were cleared against shipments that port records show never arrived.