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- <text id=90TT0263>
- <title>
- Jan. 29, 1990: Business Notes:Money Laundering
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- <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>
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- </body>
- </article>
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