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When $5.5 Million in cash are flown into Israel on a private jet, declared at customs, and shortly after placed in an NSO Group bank account, Financial Intelligence Units may just forget to launch an investigation, or so the story goes.

Colombia has publicized a suspicious activity report obtained via the Financial Intelligence Unit of Switzerland, and is now investigating how much FIUs knew about the alleged sale of Pegasus Spyware to the Colombian Police under its former government.

Don't you try to go and spend your cash though. There's rules for us, and rules for them.

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/colombia-investigates-financial-intelligence-unit-in-pegasus-scandal/

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

I'm happy to see Columbia leaked confidential information from this illegal (and human rights violating, mass surveillance) FIU cabal. The fact that it got them de-platformed confirms that it was a just* move.

However I'm thoroughly confused what Switzerland has to do with any of this. IIUC the cash went from Columbia to Israel, and Pegasus is an Israeli company.

* = although the cynic in me suspects their motive was geopolitical, in line with them joining South Africa in the proceedings against Israel and warm relationship with Iran, rather than a sudden deep commitment to privacy.

https://iranpress.com/raisi-iran-ready-to-share-its-technology-with-colombia

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L0la L33tz 1y ago

They may have sent requests to several FIUs, maybe Switzerland was the first (or only one) to respond. Whatever the connection is, hopefully more of Egmont's dirty laundry will get aired in the course of the investigation

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

I could imagine that investigating a transaction outside their country has zero priority for Switzerland, unless it the request comes from the US.

I would also expect the Israeli FIU to ignore the event. In fact I'm surprised the Israeli FIU, who was presumably notified first, would even "leak" this to other FIUs. Someone probably got fired...

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

Or maybe they're using one giant shared database by default, in which case I'm looking forward to the entire thing leaking. But I doubt they're that stupid.