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- <text id=89TT2150>
- <title>
- Aug. 21, 1989: Business Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- Wringing Out a Money Laundry
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- <p> Colombia's Banco de Occidente has no U.S. branches, but its
- Panamanian subsidiary did a booming underground business in
- America. The Panama bank is expected to plead guilty in Atlanta
- federal court this week to charges that it laundered hundreds
- of millions of dollars in drug profits for Colombia's Medellin
- cocaine cartel. The bank allegedly collected the illicit money
- in New York bank accounts, from which money was wired
- electronically to Europe and Latin America.
- </p>
- <p> As part of the plea agreement, the Panamanian bank could
- pay a $5 million fine, giving up most of its $6.7 million net
- worth. The fine would be the largest U.S. penalty ever paid by
- a bank on money-laundering charges and would be the first time
- a foreign bank with no formal operations in the U.S. has been
- convicted of such violations.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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