Let’s touch on Robert Lee Vesco. Robert Lee Vesco (December 4, 1935 – November 23, 2007) was a fugitive United States financier. After several years of high stakes investments and seedy credit dealings, Vesco was alleged guilty of securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by living in a number of Central American and Caribbean countries that did not have extradition laws. Vesco was notorious throughout his life, In 1978 Vesco moved first to Nassau and then to Antigua. While in Antigua he tried unsuccessfully to buy the sister island Barbuda and establish it as a sovereign state. And had a national law in Costa Rica made to protect him from extradition. A 2001 Slate article labeled Vesco the undisputed king of the fugitive financiers. After settling in Cuba in 1982, Vesco was charged with drug smuggling in 1989. In the 1990s he was indicted by the Cuban government for fraud and illicit economic activity and acts prejudicial to the economic plans and contracts of the state in 1996. I’m not going to even mention R. Allen Stanford, Dante Taglaventi or Dato Tan Kay Hock.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:44:03 +0000
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