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Gelb also labeled Bush's pre-war Middle-East policy as "indifferent and ignorant," saying that in allowing for the build-up of the Iraqi military capability, the administration repeated the policy errors that led to the rise of Manuel Noriega in Panama...
...invisible as possible. His tangle of offshore corporations, banks, trusts and foundations is one of the most complex and secretive banking networks ever developed. As a result, his market includes tax avoiders, intelligence agencies, political bribers, arms dealers, narcotics traffickers and national leaders bent on looting their countries (Manuel Noriega was a customer). Former B.C.C.I. bankers estimate that 15% to 20% of B.C.C.I.'s multibillion-dollar cash flow involved flight capital -- "unofficial money," as they prefer to call...
BUSINESS: Deceit pervaded an audacious global bank that touched Jimmy Carter and Manuel Noriega, among others...
...Still, Manuel Varela '94 says, "I'd like to get more information about the houses...
...meanwhile forging into uncharted waters, most notably laundering drug money. In 1983 B.C.C.I. acquired a Colombian bank with 30 branches that included several in Medellin and Cali, homes to the world's most powerful cocaine cartels. Among those laundering drug profits through B.C.C.I., say investigators, was former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, who was collared by U.S. authorities in early 1990. Prosecutors who tracked his finances said Noriega had funneled $500,000 of cocaine funds through First American's flagship bank in Washington. First American officials denied any knowledge of the transaction...