Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rigid with rage, told Parliament he knew nothing of rampant fraud at B.C.C.I. until shortly before July 5, when regulators closed the $20 billion rogue bank in most of the 69 countries where it operated. In Peru the scandal breathed new life into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez had used B.C.C.I. accounts to loot as much as $50 million from the country's treasury...
...black network was a natural outgrowth of B.C.C.I.'s dubious and criminal associations. The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme...