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- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesINVESTIGATIONSCaptain Crook's Painful Legacy
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- As investigators probe the wreckage of the Robert Maxwell
- empire, the mess just gets uglier. British investigators believe
- that the late media mogul looted some $1.5 billion from the
- pension funds and coffers of public companies under his control,
- about twice the original estimate. Auditors also found that
- debts owed by Maxwell's private companies exceed $3.3 billion,
- up $830 million from earlier estimates, and that Maxwell
- allegedly schemed to bolster the stock price of one of his
- companies by illegally paying investors to buy shares.
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- The spotlight now is on Maxwell's sons. Last week a
- British judge revoked Kevin and Ian Maxwell's passports and
- froze up to $813 million of Kevin's assets after the disclosure
- of his "substantial" involvement in questionable transfers of
- pension assets.
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