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- Apr. 29, 1991: Open Borders, Sealed Accounts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- Open Borders, Sealed Accounts
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquart
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- <p> Western businessmen aren't the only people who view
- Eastern Europe as a growth area. Drug traffickers have already
- chosen the region as a prime spot to launder money, according
- to U.S. drug enforcement officials. The local banks lack modern
- record-keeping systems; to make matters worse, some government
- officials want to establish confidential numbered accounts to
- attract hard currency. Justice Department operatives are quietly
- contacting their East European counterparts to warn them that
- secrecy laws will almost certainly bring in the kind of tainted
- cash that regularly flows to Panama and the Caribbean.
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- </body></article>
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