'Invisible' minister Lord Green who ran HSBC dodges questions over money laundering scandal [1]

Belfast Telegraph
By Andrew Grice and James Moore
Friday, 20 July 2012

Britain's Trade Minister, Lord Green, is under mounting pressure to reveal what he knew about the money laundering scandal at HSBC when he was the bank's chief executive and chairman.

Lord Green was branded "the invisible man" yesterday as the bank was also implicated in the interest rate fixing scandal which has rocked the City of London. Labour said Lord Green should make an urgent statement in the House of Lords after evidence emerged in a US Senate inquiry that he was told in 2005 about the money laundering affair.

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