<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is just astounding if true. Looks as if Russian government thinks some real banks are involved in the "Russian Business Network" that Cecil Goldstein educated us about at Ausnog meeting.<br><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">17 November 2010 12:34:05 AM AEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Russia: Investigation Against Banks Launched</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Source: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Economics/Finance STRATFOR Feed<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Author: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">STRATFOR<br></span></div><br><div><p>The Russian Financial Monitoring Service is investigating the activities of some of the country’s banks and financial institutions for possible involvement in hacker attacks in the United States, agency chief Yuri Chikhankin said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported Nov. 16. The investigation comes after an incident in mid-October in which a U.S. court found two Russian citizens — who were members of a gang using a version of the Zeus Trojan virus — guilty of staging a cyber attack on banks and stealing their money.</p></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>