{"product_id":"too-big-to-jail-by-chris-blackhurst-9781529065046","title":"Too Big to Jail","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as \u003cem\u003ethe world's local bank\u003c\/em\u003e, the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for 'drug kingpins and rogue nations'. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world, between 2003 to 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organisations in the world, to turn its ill-gotten money into clean dollars and thereby grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust how did \u003cem\u003ethe world's local bank\u003c\/em\u003e find itself enabling Mexico's leading drugs cartel, and the biggest drugs trafficking organisation in the world, to launder cash through the bank's branch network and systems?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow did a bank, which boasts \u003cem\u003ewe're committed to helping protect the world's financial system on which millions of people depend, by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency\u003c\/em\u003e come to facilitate Mexico's richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named \u003cem\u003eone of the best-run organisations in the world\u003c\/em\u003e become so entwined with such a criminal, with one of the most barbaric groups of gangsters on the planet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToo Big to Jail\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary story brilliantly told by writer, commentator and former editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e, Chris Blackhurst, that starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London, Washington, the Cayman Islands and Mexico, where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world, and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians, bankers, drug dealers, FBI officers and whistle-blowers, and asks what price does greed have? Whose job is it to police global finance? And why did not a single person go to prison for facilitating the murderous expansion of a global drug empire? Are some corporations now so big as to be above the law?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244792099052,"sku":"9781529065046","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529065046-too-big-to-jail-1.jpg?v=1788014413","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/too-big-to-jail-by-chris-blackhurst-9781529065046","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}