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Murder On The Beach
The murdered investment banker was Mariano Losanovsky Perel, 56, the shady top money man for Antfactory Latin America. The company is jointly owned by the London-based venture capital firm Antfactory and Citicorp Venture Capital, a division of the New York-based Citigroup, the largest financial services company in the world. Launched last July, Antfactory Latin America announced it was going to invest $100 million in the region's fast-growing Internet industry.Losanovsky Perel and his wife, Rosa Berta, 49, were found dead on the floor of their cabin at the exclusive Argentinean beach resort of Caril�, on February 5th. Each had taken a bullet in the back of the neck. The police said that it was "a clean and professional job" and that the killers had used a gun with a silencer, since no one in the crowded resort heard a thing. So far, there are no witnesses and no suspects.
According to the Buenos Aires daily La Naci�n, the killers left a message on Losanovsky Perel's laptop saying that Citigroup's failure to pay bribes in Argentina was the reason for the murders. The message read, "I am a gringo who collaborates with Citibank, dead for not paying Citigroup's bribes."
Police also found in the cabin an underlined newspaper clipping about legislator Carri�'s anti-money-laundering crusade. Carri�'s phone has been ringing off the hook with death threats since the double murder, and she has been placed under increased police protection. "We're beginning to eliminate the mafia state," a defiant Carri� told a television reporter the day after the murders.
Dirty Money
Investigators suspect that Losanovsky Perel may have been laundering money for high-ranking Argentinean government officials, drug cartels�or both. He and his wife were murdered shortly after the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a "preliminary inquiry" report that confirmed some of Carri�'s charges. Lax supervision by Citibank and other U.S. banks, the report said, had allowed banks in Argentina and other countries to launder drug money. The murders could be a warning both to investigators and potential witnesses, people like Losanovsky Perel who knew too much for their own good.The government also asked the court to investigate Argentina's Banco Rep�blica, its offshore, Bahamas-based subsidiary Federal Bank, and Mercado Abierto, a Cayman Islands-based Argentinean financial entity. All three were named in the U.S. Senate subcommittee's preliminary report, which traced a flow of drug money through Citibank into Mercado Abierto.
Banco Rep�blica, which collapsed in 1999 in the midst of a financial scandal, was headed by Ra�l Moneta, a crony of former Argentinean President Carlos Menem. Although he has been indicted, Moneta remains free. He is "Exhibit A" for Carri�'s theory of Argentinean impunity. Moneta and Citibank were partners in CEI Citicorp Holdings, an Argentinean communications group, along with Tom Hicks, Texas Rangers owner and George W. Bush presidential campaign bankroller.
The court was also asked to investigate the "Ju�rez cartel," a Mexican drug ring that, according to Mexican Interpol officials, laundered about $25 million in Argentina using U.S. banks as conduits. On Sunday, investigative journalist Andr�s Oppenheimer reported in La Naci�n that the Ju�rez Cartel had not only bought "mansions and businesses in Argentina and Uruguay" with this dirty money, but had also pumped more than a million dollars into the failed 1999 presidential campaign of Eduardo Duhalde, the candidate of Menem's Peronista party, using the New York branch of Citibank. Duhalde was defeated by current President de la R�a, who ran on a clean government platform.
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In 1988, a few months before Menem was elected
for his first term, George W. Bush, the then oilman
son of a sitting U.S. President, had tried to pressure
the administration of outgoing President Ra�l
Alfons�n to favor Enron, the Houston-based
company, over other, more qualified bidders to build
a gas pipeline in Argentina. He was unsuccessful, but
the Bushes hit it off with the high-rolling,
big-spending Menem from the start. One of
Menem's first acts as President was to give Enron a
$300-million sweetheart deal on the pipeline project.
The Enron deal triggered a public outcry in
Argentina. A congressional inquiry was demanded,
and a special prosecutor launched a probe. But after
Menem fired him, the probe fizzled. Enron and its
founder and CEO, Kenneth Lay, another close
friend of the elder Bush, were among the biggest
contributors to George W. Bush's presidential
campaign, as well as to his two gubernatorial
campaigns.
George W. Bush's brother, Neil Bush, also had his
fingers in the Argentina pie. He jetted to Buenos
Aires for a tennis match with Menem the day after
the latter was first elected, in 1989. Earlier, Neil had
been involved in a failed plan to drill oil in Argentina,
to be financed in part with a $900,000 loan from the
Silverado Savings and Loan Bank in Denver, of
which he was a director. The S&L collapsed in
1988 amidst a financial scandal, costing U.S.
taxpayers more than $1 billion.
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