On this episode of Contraelite, we interview financial whistleblower and co-author of espionage thriller book "KGB Banker", John Christmas.
John Christmas was the former head of international relations of Parex Bank in the early 2000s; according to EU Today and information on Wikipedia, "Christmas listened horrified as senior employees at the bank told him of the frauds at Parex as if laundering money were as normal as taking out a mortgage. He began emailing and faxing details of the bank's wrongdoing to auditors, creditors and rating agencies and was forced out of his job in 2004. Christmas left Latvia in 2005 due to concerns for his safety and would later be told by a Parex employee that the bank was hunting him down. The threat to John's safety was due to the bank's links to organised crime and Russian intelligence". He blew the whistle by informing the Financial Services Authority in London about a massive money laundering network involving shell companies, but the Financial Authority took no action.
This year, he co-authored the international thriller fiction book "KGB Banker", which was just released in September 2021.
Get all the latest on KGB Banker at https://www.facebook.com/KGBBanker/
Keep up with John at https://www.facebook.com/john.christmas.35
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Our breaks music is "Draco" by Yung Kartz (https://www.yungkartzbeats.com/)
More about our guest & related reading :
The Insider who Revealed the Russian Money Nexus in Latvia: https://bylinetimes.com/2019/09/05/the-insider-who-revealed-the-russian-money-nexus-in-latvia/
The Ghosts of Christmas Past: https://eutoday.net/news/business-economy/2020/ghosts2
John Christmas' author page on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mr.-John-Walter-Christmas/e/B005HBS5EU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Two countries, two murders that deserve answers: https://theshiftnews.com/2020/08/06/two-countries-two-murders-that-deserve-answers/