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A US billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund — then hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly went missing - ICIJ (www.icij.org)

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With help from PwC Cyprus, Hushang Ansary set up shell companies and oversaw a series of transactions that authorities say drained a Curacao fund holding pensions for 30,000 people.

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[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

He was a powerful force in the United States, a major donor to Republican causes and a friend of the Bush family, Henry Kissinger and other conservative luminaries.

Yikes.

[–] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

charge the fucker for grand theft. 30,000 times. sentences must run consecutively.