Frederick Bott
2 min readApr 10, 2020

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The anti money laundering regulations look to me to be nothing more than a criminal excuse for banks to increase their “profit” margins.

It is crime turned on its head, when the banks are deciding what constitutes a crime, when it should be the people.

I write “profit”, because it isn’t profit really.

As a first hand victim of it myself, I experienced it as theft, and financial violence.

The banks will be happy for me to publish this story, as it helps propagate their rule of fear.

They no longer care whether or not we see them as common gangsters, because they think we have no choice but continue letting them feed from us.

A certain president has shown them, and all the other common gangsters of the world, how that is possible.

Doing business which can in any way be associated with a U.S. sanctioned country results in seizure of the entire Bank balance of the company attempting to do business.

My company, Remmi Ltd. was a working UK company, attempting to do business with Cuban Dance professionals in Cuba, well within the guidance of UK government guidance specific to business with Cuba, but still had its only account frozen December 2019 by its UK bank (Metro Bank), quoting anti money laundering legislation “In the interests of its International Clients”

In effect, they stole all monies in the account, and with the loss of that, and the loss of any further utility of the account, all capability of my company to continue in any kind of business was immediately lost.

But they gained over £12,700 which was the balance in my business account.

My life was put in danger by that event, as it resulted in me being personally stranded in Cuba.

I’ve gotten over it (survived), but it will never be forgotten.

They jeapordised my entire existence.

Things will change.

What goes around, comes around.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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