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You may follow The Indian Express’s news and analysis through the day on indianexpress.com DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES SINCE 1932 `6.00 (`8 PATNA &RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 2BILLS CLEAR RAJYA SABHA AMID PROTESTS AN EXPRESS INVESTIGATION- PART ONE In collaboration with International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and BuzzFeed News One more veil lifts: Suspicious bank transactions of Indians are red-flagged to top US regulator From steel major to IPL sponsor,diamond merchantstothose under ED, CBI scanner,several Indian individuals and entitieshavebeenreferredinsecret reports by banks to US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network TMC memberDerek O’Brien attemptstotear theRuleBookduring the ruckusinRajya Sabha on Sunday. RSTV/PTI Crucialfarmreformsthrough, RITUSARIN, SHYAMLALYADAV, JAYMAZOOMDAAR, SANDEEPSINGH& trailofanger,discordinHouse KHUSHBOONARAYAN NEWDELHI,MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER20 Prime Ministerhails ‘watershedmoment in history of Opp submits LAYER BY layer, the secrecy that Indianagriculture’, Opp says ‘historic forwrong reasons’ unprecedented shrouds international money flows involving Indians has been dharna in theHouse even after resolution: Dy unpeeled—beginning with the FinCEN Files MANOJCG& INSIDE it wasadjourned forthe day. OffshoreLeaksin2013, Swiss Headquarters of FinCEN, the HARIKISHANSHARMA OPP SAYS BILLS ARE Neverunsureofits numbers Chairman has Leaksin2015, Panama Papers in topUSfinancialwatchdog, TOTALNUMBEROFSUSPICIOUS TOTALVALUEOFSUSPICIOUS NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 DEATH WARRANT in the Upper House,and given 2016,andParadisePapersin 2017, in Virginia. ACTIVTYREPORTS(SARS): TRANSACTIONS: that manyOpposition mem- to be removed in aseries of investigations by The Scilla Alecci/ICIJ DISMISSINGOPPOSITION ob- FOR FARMERS; BJP bers have cited health reasons Indian Express.Now comes the ()2,121 $2.099tn jections and pleas, the govern- SAYS BIG REFORM to stay away,the government, FinCEN Files. ment pushedthrough twokey IN PARLIAMENT, PAGE 5 using itsnumerical strength, re- MANOJCG The newspaper’s latest, be- Suspicious Activity Reports or TIME PERIOD OF REPORTED TRANSACTIONS: 1999-2017 farm Bills in RajyaSabha on jectedthe Opposition demand NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 ginning today, examines Indian SARs, whichconstitute the Sundayamidunprecedented MAKING SENSE OF to referthe Bills—The Farmers’ connections in acache of over FinCEN Files, arenot evidence of ■Keybanks and value of NUMBER OF JOURNALISTS: scenesofchaos, confusion,and THE FARM BILLS Produce Tradeand Commerce IN AN unprecedented move,as 2000secret documents—sose- illegality.Theyreflect views by transactions theyflagged MORE THAN 400 ruckus. Agitated Opposition EXPLAINED, PAGE 11 (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, manyas12Opposition parties cret banksaren’t even allowedto watchdogs within banks, BANKS AMOUNT members, protesting the exten- 2020, and The Farmers came together on Sundaytosub- confirm theyexist—whichhave known as compliance officers, DeutscheBankAG $1,310bln 88 110 sionofthe Housesitting be- (Empowerment and Protection) mit ano-confidence resolution been red-flagged to thetop US reporting pasttransactions that NUMBER NEWS yond the scheduledend at Chairman’s table,flungacopy Agreement of Price Assurance seeking the removalofRajya financial watchdog, the Treasury borehallmarks of financial JPMorganChase $514.2bln OFCOUNTRIES ORGANISATIONS 1pm, tore copies of the Bills, of the Rule Book at the presid- and Farm Services Bill, 2020 — Sabha Deputy Chairman Department’s Financial Crimes crime, or that involvedclients StandardCharteredPlc $166.1bln brokemicrophones on the ing officer,and then sat on a CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Harivansh. The move followed Enforcement Network(FinCEN) with high-risk pofiles or past BankofNewYorkMellon $64.1bln Partners include: uproar in the House over his de- forsuspectedmoneylaundering, run-ins with the law. Le Monde,BBC, NBC, cision to extend the sessionbe- terrorism, drug dealing or finan- In effect, theyare crucial red Barclays Plc $21.6bln Suddeutsche Zeitung, Asahi yond the scheduled1pm while cial fraud. flags raisedbybanksthat point HSBCHoldingsPlc $4.48bln Shimbun, L’Espresso Opp,states see new faultline:Centre overruling Opposition pleas to These documents,called CONTINUEDONPAGE10 continue discussions on the con- usurps powers,weakensfederalism tentious farm Bills the next day. “The Deputy Chairman has WELLS FARGO BANK STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, NEWYORK intothe powers of the state Samithi (TRS), whichisconsid- violated all the canons of law, LIZMATHEW government on subjects that ered friendly to the BJP,has procedure, parliamentarypro- Bank reported On US radar: Dawood’s financier, his NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 areinthe concurrent list”. termedthe Centre’s proposed cedures,practicesand fair play. The passageofthe farm Bills Electricity Bill, 2020, as “dracon- Today, the Deputy Chairman did fraud, UK link SEVERAL HOT-BUTTON issues has come at the costofthe ian”, and aimedattakingaway notallowpointsoforder to be laundering, funding of Lashkar, Jaish takenupbythe government Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), one powers of the state. Telangana raised, did notallow large num- of an IPL this week have triggeredade- of the BJP’s oldestallies, walk- Chief MinisterKChandrashekar bers of members of RajyaSabha the StandardChartered Bank, trans-continental undercover bate over the federal character ing out of the Union Cabinet— Raohas accusedPrime Minister from diverse political parties op- team sponsor RITUSARIN New York,and investigated by operation, and put behind bars of the polity, withopposition and also threatening an exit NarendraModiofworking “to- posing the anti-farmer Bill...even NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 TheIndianExpress. in aMiami prison. His detention and regional parties accusing from the NDA. wardscomplete centralisation to speak,” the resolutionstated. These SARs detail transac- endedinJuly2020and he wasto the Centreof“transgressing The Telangana Rashtra CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 JAYMAZOOMDAAR THE FINANCIAL Crimes tions of Khanani’sMoney be handedovertoUSimmigra- NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 Enforcement Network(FinCEN), Laundering Organisation(MLO) tion authorities fordeportation. the US regulatoryagency foren- and the Al Zarooni Exchange. For It is unclear whether he has been THE INDIAN Premier League, forcingmoney launderinglaws, decades, Khanani and his MLO deportedtoPakistan or the UAE. with itsshowpiece auctions and has uncoveredaweb of transac- movedanestimated $14billion- Khanani’s relationship with big-ticketsponsors, has surfaced tions of aflourishingmoneylaun- $16billion annuallyfor drug car- Dawood Ibrahim wasdocu- BUSINESSASUSUAL Investor, authorRuchir Sharmacuts on the US financial regulator’s dering networkrun by Pakistani tels and terror organisationslike mented by the US Office of radar too—inaweb of transac- national Altaf Khanani who is also al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) BY UNNY through Covid fog at e-Adda today tions thatinvolve aleading US said to have been akey financier Taliban. when it issuedthe sanctions no- bank,alittle-knownUKcom- forfugitive terroristDawood On September 11,2015, tice againsthim afterhis arrest. pany, aKolkata-basedsponsor of Ibrahim, reveal Suspicious Khananiwas arrested at the Issued on December 11,2015, the finestobservers of contem- an IPL team, and allegations of Activity Reports (SARs) filedby Panama airportfollowing a CONTINUEDONPAGE10 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE poraryIndian politicsand econ- fraudand forgery. NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 omy, will also give newinsights These arethe central ele- intothe functioning of the fi- mentsofaSuspiciousActivity DEUTSCHE BANKTRUST COMPANY AMERICAS WITH THE Covid-19 pandemic Ruchir nancial markets andsocio-po- Report(SAR) filedwiththe US pushing the worldeconomy Sharma litical changes. Financial Crimes Enforcement Revealed: how Jindal Steel sent funds into itsworstrecessionary Sharma’s latestbook, The10 Network(FinCEN), accordingto phase sincethe Great Rules of Successful Nations,is records investigated by The Depression, Ruchir Sharma, born of dataanalysis,on-the- Indian Express. abroad —and got them in same period Head of Emerging Markets and ground research andhis deep In 2013,KPH Dream Cricket, Chief GlobalStrategistat interestincontemporarypoli- whichruns Kings XI Punjab, basedinMauritius, Germany, alsosent$1.3 million to Germany- Morgan StanleyInvestment tics and current affairs. The went to courtagainstteam spon- SANDEEPSINGH and the UK, and receivedfunds basedOceanwide Services Management, will be the guest book is awake-up call to econ- sor NVD Solar InternationalLtd NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER20 from companies basedinDubai GmbH.During the same period, at Expresse-Adda on Monday omists who failedtoforesee for“cheating and duping” them and Switzerland within the same JSPL received$1.323 million from to discuss howcountries can everyrecent crisis,including of $3 million in sponsorship fee. THREE DIFFERENT