>Just like how HSBC physically expanded their teller windows to make it easy for Mexican drug cartels to make cash deposits.
I can't seem to find any mention of this in the linked article?
I can't seem to find any mention of this in the linked article?
From a Rolling Stone article --
The banks' laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."[0]
[0] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...
The one thing does not exclude the other.
It is entirely possible that previous windows were too small and, after they were enlarged, in order to optimize the deposit operation some special boxes were put in use.
IE everything is entirely possible
From the article reference here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857385
The Guardian published something [0]: >In some branches the boxes of cash being deposited were so big the tellers' windows had to be enlarged.
Rolling Stone published something different [1]: > ... Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."
The one doesn't exclude the other.
What is the problem?
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/14/hsbc-money-...
[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...