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Ex-Bankers Jailed In $482 Million Scam

May 10, 2009

The Washington Post

For more than a decade, the bank managers lived in high style, jetting to Las Vegas and Macau to bet millions at the baccarat tables, staying for free in casino hotels and lavishing gem-studded watches on their wives.

But then accountants for the Bank of China noticed missing funds — which eventually totaled $482 million — and the men were soon fleeing across the globe, doctoring immigration papers and entering into phony marriages, prosecutors say.

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