that happened when silken s responsible partner was, you guessed it, luther denis. when you look at the official documents stored here at companies house in cardiff, it looks like luther denis must be some sort of shipping magnate or serial entrepreneur. and he signs documents which give away the ultimate control to the real owners. that leaves a gaping loophole where companies house won t tell us who really owns these companies. to me, it s a shock that the government hasn t used the opportunity of the economic crime bill to close down every loophole of which it is aware. and it certainly is aware of this one and, frankly, really can t even be called a loophole. i mean, it s so wide you can drive an oil tanker through it. the government has the chance to close it down with this legislation. it s choosing not to. we asked luther denis to comment, but he declined to say anything publicly. alpha consulting told us. alpha consulting s involvement in uk based limited partnerships
so that it isn t a fight between two branches of government, it is a failure of them to finally come to an agreement. natasha, as you have been watching the back and forth now that the mueller report is out and all that is existing in this con selling latell laying evestl con selling latell laying evesl what is happening with the financial institutions that might be questionable, where does this fit? we ve had so many discussions about deutsche bank and donald trump and his companies. yeah, i think this is a really interesting development. the fact that congress has really wanted to look cooperative so that they could have a better chance in court perhaps of succeeding and obtaining these records. but it is important in the big scheme of things just to get the records themselves because we just saw a report in the new york times about how antimony laundering experts saw suspicious activity in donald
specialist hired by deutsche bank to look for this kind of activity, she sees all this money going from kushner companies to russian individuals. she, quote, drafts a suspicious activity report. she compiles a small bundle of documents to back up her decision. according to the times typically that type of report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who were in a different part of the bank. who were independent of the specific business line inside the bank where the transactions originat originated. so typically people who might have facilitated these suspicious transactions wouldn t be asked to review thaeir own work, it would go to a different part of the bank. this would mean that this suspicious activity report would be reviewed by people outside the private banking division where trump and kushner were doing their deutsche bank business. despite the fact that that s standard practice, that is not how things were handled when it came to this alleged suspici
activity report. she compiles a small bundle of documents to back up her decision. according to the times typically that type of report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who were in a different part of the bank. who were independent of the specific business line inside the bank where the transactions originated. so typically people who might have facilitated these suspicious transactions wouldn t be asked to review their own work, it would go to a different part of the bank. this would mean that this suspicious activity report would be reviewed by people outside the private banking division where trump and kushner were doing their deutsche bank business. despite the fact that that s standard practice, that is not how things were handled when it came to this alleged suspicious activity involving jared kushner s money and some russians during the campaign. ms. mcfadden and two former deutsche bank managers now telling the times while typically this concern