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Thursday, February 02, 2006

It turns out that half a billion deal was related to the Kaiping case from 1998, which is old news. I am sure the money by now has been written off by BOC using central subsidies from the foreign exchange reserve. Though bad for publicity, this should not be a big deal for the IPO. What these guys did sounds interesting though, someone should make a movie of it.

中国银行两前管理者在美被控盗窃巨款和洗黑钱
2006-02-02 00:47:05
  美国司法部今天发布的声明说,中国银行两名前管理者许超凡、许国俊及其同伙共五人被指控盗窃了超过四点八五亿美元的资金,并通过拉斯维加斯赌场洗黑钱。
  
  许超凡、余振东、许国俊是中国银行广东开平支行先后三任行长,他们三人制造了盗窃、贪污、挪用七亿多美元的中国金融界惊天大案,且都潜逃到了美国。
  
  他们中的第二任行长余振东已于二○○四年四月从美国递解回国。
  
  美国司法部说,许超凡、许国俊二人伙同他们的妻子以及一个亲戚等五人在潜逃到美国之前,通过香港、加拿大和美国等地的管道偷盗了的巨额的资金。美国拉斯维加斯的一个联邦大陪审团指控他们犯有诈骗、洗钱、欺骗等罪名。这个团伙于二○○四年九十月间在美国被拘捕。
  
  美国司法部门的声明指出,这个团伙把偷盗来的钱通过一个在香港的壳公司转移到其他国家,随后又通过拉斯维加斯赌场的账号洗了为数不少的钱,这个过程从一九九八年开始,一直持续到二○○四年十月。
  
  据报道,许超凡一九九四年至一九九八年任中国银行开平支行行长期间,利用职务之便,通过各种方式窃取银行数亿美元的资金,并通过运作,让余振东、许国俊先后就任开平分行的行长,继续和掩盖罪行。
  
  余振东、许超凡和许国俊早年前获得伪造的香港护照。此后,他们以假香港护照申请美国签证,二○○一年五月,三人在香港与美国公民假结婚。许超凡和许国俊二 ○○一年潜逃至北美并在偏远地方隐姓埋名。二○○四年九月下旬,许国俊在美国堪萨斯州一个小镇上被捕。十月初,首嫌许超凡在俄克拉荷马州的一个小镇被捕。
  
  来源:中国新闻网/刘小青

Comments:
CCP would not make a movie for it, if it does want to, I guess every bit in the long history of BOC would be a appropriate source/medium from which its movies stem. Bankers and politic leaders are generally rich but not chinese people. Though it might be attractive to Hollywood movie makers. And it could a competent nominee for the Academy Award. Ppl then could understand chinese are not just good at making Gay and Kongfu moives.
 
Interesting to note that the Standard reports the BoC IPO has been put back.
 
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