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- <text id=91TT2852>
- <title>
- Dec. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 23, 1991 Gorbachev:A Man Without A Country
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 61
- Business Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- Captain Crook's Painful Legacy
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- <p> As investigators probe the wreckage of the Robert Maxwell
- empire, the mess just gets uglier. British investigators believe
- that the late media mogul looted some $1.5 billion from the
- pension funds and coffers of public companies under his control,
- about twice the original estimate. Auditors also found that
- debts owed by Maxwell's private companies exceed $3.3 billion,
- up $830 million from earlier estimates, and that Maxwell
- allegedly schemed to bolster the stock price of one of his
- companies by illegally paying investors to buy shares.
- </p>
- <p> The spotlight now is on Maxwell's sons. Last week a
- British judge revoked Kevin and Ian Maxwell's passports and
- froze up to $813 million of Kevin's assets after the disclosure
- of his "substantial" involvement in questionable transfers of
- pension assets.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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