Money-Laundering Banks

How about this, ladies and gents. According to the Guardian, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime claims that the global banking system was saved from collapse at the height of the financial crisis by billions of dollars of drug money. Is it any surprise? Not to me, but if I'd written it before this statement from the UN official appeared, there are people who would have accused me of being a conspiracy theorist.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims