I ignore any such claim until the PEP factor is
definitively confirmed or refuted.
"He also claimed that he was refused custom by a variety of other banks.
That suggests that it's not one system rejecting him, automated or not."
The same set of regulations will result in the same
sets of behaviours in a system implementation.
Whatever the decision maker for N banks are, a sys
engineer would expect to see a large subset off
common factors in the rationale sets.
“Could foreign governments from Ukraine or China or wherever else it may be,
could they be pumping money into, you know, the accounts of corrupt politicians."
Such schemes are actually easy to do,.
A simple example would be of a politician who
publishes a book or a video documentary.
They sell millions.
If the sales are massively skewed to overseas
nations where the politician does not speak the
same language, nor is held in particularly high
esteem, then alarm bells immediately start ringing.
We also know from the likes of the "wu mao" in China,
that you could even potentially try and disguise
the nation (although Amazon etc no doubt hold
the IP addrs on customer registration, so some geo
mapping or VPN detection would be possible if requested) .
" ... "
I suspect the actual reason is mainly PEP, with a fair
bit of political pressure thrown in for good measure.
With such a high profile case, the public interest
is now to see what % of each applied.
