Did Bandar bankroll the Camilla wedding, via Riggs?

Sunday Times:

The guest list

Guests who joined the royal family for the service in St George’s Chapel and the reception included:
Foreign royalty:
The King of Bahrain
The King and Queen of the Hellenes
Prince and Princess Constantijn of the Netherlands
The Crown Prince and Princess of Norway
Prince Radu of Hohenzollern and Princess Margarita of Romania
Prince Turki al-Faisal and Princess Nouf bint Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1563048,00.html


Bandar has been a long time chummy of Charles Windsor, who has been reported in the UK press as being a long time Riggs customer. His account manager at Riggs in London is avid bachetti.

Bandar has been reported as having doshed up Charles's official and unofficial trust funds for the last 15 years.

In 1998 Charles Windsor tried to claim ownership of over $85million in Riggs Bank accounts held at its Channel Islands subsidiary Riggs Bank (Channels Islands) Ltd. He was eventually unsuccessful in his claim, which at the time was alleged to be earmarked for trust funds for Camilla and her adult progeny. The ownership of the accounts was never published in the UK but was believed to belong to US philanthropists involved in water conservation projects in East Africa.

That Riggs Bank Channels Islands subsidiary is an asset which the Albrittons sold off to Israeli bank Bank Leumi earlier this year. The sale has been rumoured to have been made necessary to pay off the the $41 million fines imposed by the US Supreme Court for money laundering - Saudis, General Pinochet and the Equatorial Guinea Coup
Plot debacle for which Mark Thatcher received a suspended prison sentence and a hefty $$$$$$$$$$$$ fine.

Mountbatten-Windsor?

Israel has very loose banking regulations -- an attitude that stems from the days of Nazi Germany, when European Jews needed to be able to get their money out any which way -- and this makes it a haven for all sorts of financial irregulaties.

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=729749&fid=942

French Investigating Judge Isabelle Prevost Desprez last week ordered eight French banks, including Banque Leumi France, to be indicted on serious money laundering charges.

The decision follows months of investigations into alleged irregularities in connection with transactions between France and Israel. Last month, the French public prosecutor recommended revoking the charges against the banks; he has the authority to appeal the decision by an investigative judge.

The eight banks are French bank Societe Generale, British bank Barclays in France, American Express Paris, the BRED, Banque Leumi France, Societe Marseillaise de Credit, Lebanese bank Saradar, and the National Bank of Pakistan.

The affair was uncovered over a year ago, as part of a suspected money-laundering scheme that originated in Israel. The French authorities questioned the banks' executives, including Banque Leumi France general manager Itzhak Eyal. The money laundering is suspected to have begun in 1996.

But what I wonder about is why the National Bank of Pakistan would be involved in transactions between France and Israel.