Word: brazilians
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...Rogers turned investing into an international thrill ride in his books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest effort, Hot Commodities, explains how to invest in everything from tin to coffee--with detours into Brazilian sugar farms and Dutch smuggling rings. TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked him for some New Year's wisdom...
Sala, 40, has since confessed to magistrates that he received more than $20 million in kickbacks from Parmalat while at Bank of America. Most of it came directly from a refinancing of a 1999 Brazilian transaction that is now a central element of bankruptcy administrator Bondi's case against the bank. In that transaction Bank of America raised $300 million in funding from U.S. investors via two entities it set up in the Cayman Islands. The bank used the money to acquire an 18% stake in Parmalat's Brazilian group. News of the transaction sent Parmalat stock soaring...
...creation. Nossiter doesn't do Michael Moore-style voice-overs. Instead he uncorks his views through his characters' stubborn devotion to wine. The 21/4-hour film is a willful distillation of some 500 hours of rushes shot over a period of four years in vineyards located everywhere from the Brazilian rainforest to Sardinia to deepest Burgundy. In France, where Mondovino opened Nov. 3, the film has received mostly positive reviews and lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into...
...with a pseudonym. Most of it came from the refinancing of a 1999 Brazilian deal, under which Bank of America raised $300 million from U.S. investors to acquire a stake in Parmalat's Brazilian group. News of the transaction sent Parmalat stock soaring 17% in a single day, as investors were cheered by the idea that Americans were buying into the company. The transaction is now a central element of Bondi's case against the bank; he says it made a loan look like an equity infusion, a charge the bank denies. The refinancing was even more controversial: Sala admitted...
...partners also had serious concerns. In an audit report dated March 28, 2003, Deloitte's Maltese office questioned a $7 billion intercompany transfer that is now known to have been fictitious. The Deloitte auditor in Brazil, Wanderley Olivetti, raised such a stink to the Milan office about Parmalat's Brazilian accounts that the matter went all the way up to Jim Copeland, then Deloitte's chief executive in New York City. "Sorry to trouble you this morning in a moment while you are clearly busy with other matters," Milan partner Mamoli wrote in a memo to Copeland, "but ... a major...