Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiasso, a quaint Swiss town of 8,700 inhabitants on the Italian border, has 18 banking offices. But during the past few years, Swiss secrecy has been weakened by a series of cases involving money laundering. Switzerland is now preparing a new law that will make money laundering a crime punishable by prison terms. Explains Jean-Paul Chapuis, executive director of the Swiss Bankers Association: "Our hope is that the criminals will go to another country...
Still, Hong Kong remains the pre-eminent laundering center in the Pacific. Almost everyone there does it, usually legitimately, at least according to the laws of Hong Kong, where even insider trading is no crime. By the puritan standards of the U.S., says one American banker, "the lack of public disclosure here is scandalous." The city is a mecca for arms dealers, drug traffickers and business pirates of every description. "Where else could I broker a deal that involves machine guns from China, gold from Taiwan and shipments traded in Panama City?" says a Brazilian arms merchant who maintains...
...Always Returns to the Scene of the Crime: This winter break is the return to St. Paul--the Crimson meet Minnesota Dec. 22 and 23 in a two-game rematch of last year's NCAA championship. But for three Harvard players, it instead will be the return to Helsinki...
Keith called the rape "an unusual occurrence," but said that violent crime along the banks of the river is not entirely uncommon. "I don't think we've handled [a rape] in that immediate area for six months...
Because the crime occurred on a Cambridge street, the Cambridge Police Department is handling the investigation, Harvard police said yesterday...