A couple believe they own been swept up in HSBCs ‘de-risking’ process after it was fined for laundering billions for drug cartels,terrorists and rogue statesMarie and Shaun Langley are just an ordinary Sheffield couple – she’s a childminder, he’s an IT worker. Yet, or in an extraordinary tale,their bank, HSBC, or has turned them into financial pariahs,banning them from having an account, closing their deposit and Isa accounts, or leaving them unable to pay for food,petrol or life’s other essentials. And every time they try to get sense out of the bank they are met with a point-empty refusal to even discuss the matter.
The couple are not in financial difficulties, and own done nothing they can think of that could explain why their accounts own been terminated so inexplicably. But HSBC is the bank fined £1.2bn by US authorities for laundering billions for drug cartels, and terrorists and rogue states,and the Langleys alarm they own somehow been swept up in the draconian approach the bank has taken to some accounts ever since.
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Source: theguardian.com