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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>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <body>
- <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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- </article>
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