A man hung fake notes during a protest in front of an HSBC branch in Mexico City last month.Credit...Alfredo Estrella/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Rome THE global financial crisis has been a blessing for organized crime. A series of recent scandals have exposed the connection between some of the biggest global banks and the seamy underworld of mobsters, smugglers, drug traffickers and arms
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