Largest Banks Reported Funding Production Of Internationally Banned Weapons

Olesya Dmitracova
Reuters
October 31, 2009

[efoods]Leading banks have funded arms manufacturers, whose products include cluster bombs, to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years, despite an international accord to ban such weapons, a study said Thursday.

The report by Profundo consultancy and several NGOs said the banks loaned money to companies whose products include cluster bombs or their components.

It did not say the funds went directly to make cluster bombs. The manufacturers could use the money for any of their production lines.

The top five loan providers were Bank of America, Citigroup , JP Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs, the study said.

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This article was posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 1:49 pm

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