Word: safra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foul play is confirmed, but the identity of the players may make for the great murder mystery of international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded men broke into his penthouse apartment and set a fire after the banker locked himself in a bathroom. Safra and a nanny died in the fire, while his bodyguard was badly injured. The killers have not been apprehended...
...attack came as Safra was moving to complete the sale of Republic National to the London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic...
...Hillel's Safra Courtyard...
...Basically I'd rather stay on campus. [However] I think I'm going to be able to be more at ease and have more space," Safra says. "I find [space] very important and I know the sophomore rooms are real small...
...Safra says he plans to look for housing which would allow him to live closer to the Yard than if he were "Quadded." Eventually, Safra says, he plans to move back into on-campus housing, "if the accommodations are better...