MoneyNews.com reports that FBI agent John E Osa has been successfully trapping offshore bankers prepared to launder money by posing as a criminal consultant. His latest prey is Venezuelan businessman Rodolfo A. Requena, who is accused of agreeing to launder funds through Dominica-based British Trade and Commerce Bank and is being held in detention pending trial in US District Court in Miami.
Reportedly, Osa has been particularly targetting officials of some of the 10 offshore banks named in last year's Senate money-laundering report. British Trade and Commerce Bank, which was one of them, went into receivership in Dominica one month after the the Senate report, with liabilities of between US$27 million and $35 million and negligible assets.
The bank operated through a Miami-based stock brokerage, First Equity Corp. of Florida Inc., which stopped operating following the receivership. Research by United Press International quoted in MoneyNews.com says that a number of lawsuits have been filed over the past 18 months in Miami against the bank and its brokerage leading to judgements against it, one for US$10m.
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