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Sunday 01 December 2002  


Archivo/ LA NACIÓN
Case of the financial mess


Crude tracking of Milanés and Villalobos

• Interpol: has no orders for capture

Story translated from the La Nacion Nov 30.

To trace the whereabouts of the Cuban Luis Milanés and the Costarican Luis Enrique Villalonbos, disappeared after the closing of their business of collecting money, the police are trying to find using coarse means.

Manually they are looking at airline tickets and other tracks to see if they ledt the country and the possible routes they may have taken.

The Security Minister, Rogelio Ramos, confirmed he gave orders to shorten the revision and determine if, as it is presumed, they are not here.

Milanés, 52, who ran around in gambling circles, used Savings Unlimited, located on the 9th floor of the Centro Colon building, to take deposits from investors.

He offered rates of up to 4% monthly on dollar deposits, a means by which he is believed to have received more than $200 Million dollars from about 2.600 customers.

Villalobos, with a similar business, called the Brothers, is believed to handle about $1 Billion dollars.

The computer systems for entries and exists to the country, operated by the Ministerio de Seguridad, shows that Milanés took six trips this year.

The last time he came in to the country was Monady Novermber 11, from Miami.

In the case of Villalobos, he has 8 trips. The last, he came back on the 10th of September from Nicaragua. However, unofficially it is rumored he could have been in Romania, his wife's country of origin.

At the same time, Interpol says they have no order to capture against either of the two businessmen.

Osvaldo, one of the Villalobos brothers was detained on Wednesday and is his lawyer is appealing that order


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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