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<text id=90TT1685>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Ring Around The Money
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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<p> RING AROUND THE MONEY. What country will replace Panama as
the world's leading drug-money Laundromat? U.S. law-enforcement
agencies are wondering, and so, evidently, are the cocaine
cartels. Uruguay, with its stringent bank-secrecy laws, would
seem a natural heir. But after Uruguayan officials extradited an
accused money launderer and assured the U.S. of further
cooperation, cartel financiers began scurrying for alternatives.
Among the prospects being watched by investigators: Vanuatu, a
Pacific island republic formerly known as the New Hebrides; the
Cook Islands, a protectorate of New Zealand; and the island
group of Palau, which is about to legalize gambling, a business
that generates the kind of cash flow money washers love to swim
in.
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