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- Mar. 05, 1990: Grapevine:Our Money In Panama
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 20
- Grapevine
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- <p> OUR MONEY IN PANAMA. Under Manuel Antonio Noriega,
- bank-secrecy laws prevented American agents from tracing
- hundreds of millions of narcodollars that were laundered
- through Panamanian banks. Now the U.S-installed Endara
- government is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors and
- investigators seeking to discover what happened to drug profits
- stashed in more than 300 bank accounts. "We won't find big
- money," says a U.S. agent. "But what we will find is where the
- hell the money went to." U.S. officials believe most of the
- plunder has already been shifted from Panama to European banks,
- where it could be seized if it could be located.
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