· The Week in Review - November 25-30  2002

Sunday 01 December 2002  · News briefs

Savings Unlimited No More!
• Sudden closing and disappearance of Milanés
Early Sunday morning the news swept through the investment community - Savings Unlimited, the high interest investment firm run by Luis Milanés, known as the "Cuban" - was gone. And with him the hopes and dreams of many investors, as well as their money. 
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Villalobos Asset Freeze Extended;
Osvaldo Villalobos arrested

• Extension is for six more months
A judge ordered a six-month preventive prison term for Osvaldo Villalobos, after he was arrested on Wednesday morning on charges of money laundering, fraud and illegal financial intermediation, according to judicial spokeswoman Sandra Castro.  >complete story


Villalobos case hits $88 Million
The amount is larger that the loss of the Banco Anglo closing
An accounting of about 10% of the investors of the Brothers investment house reveal a debt to investors of $88 Millions just to this small group of 636 investors. 
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Crude tracking of Milanés and Villalobos
• Interpol: has no orders for capture
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.
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Investigator Gets International Support
By Tim Rogers
Tico Times

Targeted for numerous death threats during the last two weeks and denied protection by the government whose children she is trying to safeguard, Rocío Rodríguez, chief investigator for Casa Alianza, received a strong vote of support this week from the international community.
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