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May 4, 1999 |
Government asks
FBI, British to investigate offshore bank
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Grenada's government has asked the FBI and the British Intelligence
Unit to investigate one of the Caribbean island's leading offshore
banks, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell announced. |
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The move follows charges
in the Miami-based Offshore Alert
financial newsletter that First International Bank, owned by Van A.
Brink of Oregon, was involved in an international scam.
Offshore Alert, which has broken
several scandals in the Caribbean offshore industry, alleged that
together with other offshore banks in Grenada and elsewhere, First
International was securing millions of dollars in deposits to a
non-existent Grenada-based stock exchange. The former British colony
has no stock exchange.
A receptionist at the bank Tuesday said neither Brink nor any other
official was immediately available to comment on the development.
The bank last month failed in an attempt to stop publication of
Offshore Alert, publisher
David Marchant said from his Miami
office. |
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