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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The United States announced Thursday moves to lock global organized crime out of the financial system, putting sanctions on the Russia-linked Brothers’ Circle and Japan’s powerful Yamaguchi-gumi.
The Treasury said it was ordering a freeze on their assets and prohibiting any US citizens or businesses from any transactions with them, to attack their economic power and protect the international financial system.
“The threat to the United States... is that they use our financial system, they use our commercial system, to both penetrate the markets, to disrupt the markets, and to make use of their illicit proceeds,” said Treasury under secretary David Cohen.
“The dirty money that these organizations generate, the illicit proceeds, when it becomes mixed into the international financial system, threatens the integrity of the financial institutions and the financial system as a whole.”
The move took aim at the Brothers’ Circle, a sprawling crime network dealing in weapons, narcotics, precious metals and financial fraud with its roots in the former Soviet Union and operations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
The Treasury said the Brothers’ Circle “serves as a coordinating body” for a number of criminal networks “directing member criminal activity globally.”
Seven men linked to various syndicates tied into the Circle, including central figures Vladislav Leontyev and Vasiliy Khristoforov, were targeted with sanctions.
A number of them operate out of Dubai, “further evidence of their attempts to export their criminal activities on an international scale,” said Cohen.
The Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest of Japan’s Yakuza crime families, earns billions of dollars from prostitution and weapons, drugs and human trafficking, the Treasury said.
Also hit with sanctions were Yamaguchi-gumi leader Kenichi Shinoda and a key aid, Kiyoshi Takayama.
The Treasury’s steps Thursday were the first announced actions take in the wake of a White House executive order last July imposing broad sanctions on four transnational crime groups: the Brothers’ Circle, the Yakuza, the Camorra crime group of Italy, and Los Zetas of Mexico.
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