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A U.S. Senate investigation is trying to get to the bottom of an alleged money laundering scheme that included the purchase of a hilltop Malibu mansion by a an allegedly-corrupt official from Africa with ties to a well-known U.S. rapper/actress, it was reported Saturday.
The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a 325-page report last week that sheds light on how banks such as Citigroup, Wachovia and Bank of America moved hundreds of millions of dollars from impoverished African nations to U.S. accounts held by African politicians, their relatives and associates, the
The Senate report says, the banks ignored controls intended to prevent money laundering by high-risk clients from corrupt countries.