FINMA says it enforces AML compliance. How about Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique?

Internal compliance documents from Gonet seen by this site, show that a compliance officer in Bahamas raised concerns about lack of due diligence in corroborating Diazgranados’ source of wealth, adding the documentation pertaining «full approval of the Due Diligence Committee does not appear to be on file.»

Same compliance report goes on to claim that only Nicolas Gonet’s approval of onboarding Diazgranados was present, «but not of the other members, such as Alfred Schaller or Kevin Price…» Central to all this compliance talk at Gonet is Patrick Feuz, another Swiss «banker» very well versed in providing money laundering services to all manner of Venezuelan thugs.

Diazgranados reportedly keeps banking relations with: Bank Safra, Julius Baer, Pictet, Credit Suisse, Credit Andorra, Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique, Bank Gonet, EFG International, Schroders, Deltec, JP Morgan, Savoy and Bank of America. Recent valuation of Diazgranados’ portfolio (Q4 2018) puts his net worth at over $489 million.

Not only that. As we did in the case of Banca Credinvest and its minority shareholders Alejandro Betancourt and Francisco Convit, this site can reveal that Danilo Diazgranados was / is a shareholder of Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique. In a document created 9 October 2013 by Alexandra Gherardi (aka Alessandra Gherardi du Bosq de Beaumont, ie Charles Henry de Beaumont’s wife), addressed to Joseph Benhamou, Diazgranados communicates the following:

«…I would like to confirm my decision to purchase 10,929 (ten thousand nine hundred and twenty nine shares) of Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique Switzerland at the agreed price of CHF 487.80 (four hundred eighty seven Swiss Francs and eighty centimes) per share for a total amount of CHF 5,331,166 (five million three hundred thirty one thousand one hundred and sixty six Swiss Francs).» (bold added)

So our question is: was this duly reported to FINMA, or whatever other regulatory body in Switzerland, considering the source of Diazgranados funds and track record? Almost certainly not, for if it were, and FINMA did nothing, then, what could be said about Switzerland’s financial watchdog?

The worrying thing here is that Diazgranados also had dealings with Anthony Scaramucci’s Skybridge fund. In fact, he was involved in some acquisition just a few days before Scaramucci headed for his two-day stint at the White House as Donald Trump’s mouthpiece. If we extend a line of enquiry even further, we see that the address in Washington used by proxies of Diazgranados to book purchase of Scaramucci’s Skybridge fund stake, is the same as the one used by Martin Rodil and Roger Noriega’s Vision America’s «think tank».

Another interesting line could be Diazgranados’ co-partner in Konzapata news outlet Jon Urruzuno. Urruzuno is a (Venezuelan) UBS banker with whom this site became recently acquainted, via different money laundering activities centered at Banca Privada d’Andorra.

Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique, Danilo Diazgranados, and Charles Henry de Beaumont are already deep in criminal investigations in the U.S. in relation to the Atlantic – PDVSA $4.5 billion money laundering deal. Their activities in Liechtenstein’s Landesbank are under criminal proceedings in that jurisdiction.