home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990s
/
Time_Almanac_1990s_SoftKey_1994.iso
/
time
/
012990
/
0129203.000
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-03-25
|
1KB
|
42 lines
<text id=90TT0263>
<title>
Jan. 29, 1990: Business Notes:Money Laundering
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 29, 1990 Who Is The NRA?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 63
Business Notes
MONEY LAUNDERING
Kink in the Drug Pipeline
</hdr>
<body>
<p> In a country that prizes the secrecy of banking
transactions, Luxembourg's Bank of Credit and Commerce
International grew to become one of the world's largest
financial institutions (assets: $21 billion). But in Tampa last
week the bank lifted its veil of secrecy when two of its
subsidiaries pleaded guilty in the first U.S. money-laundering
case against a major international banking house. In a
plea-bargaining deal, the two subsidiaries--one based in
Luxembourg and the other in the Cayman Islands--agreed to
surrender $14.7 million of alleged drug profits.
</p>
<p> The penalty was attacked as too light by critics, who argued
that some of the bank's branches should have been shut down. But
the bank agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in other
cases. Among them: the drug-trafficking trial of General Manuel
Noriega, which is to begin in March in Miami. The ousted
Panamanian strongman reportedly controlled $23 million in
accounts at the Luxembourg bank's branches.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>