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U.S. Report Details Money Laundering


A suitcase containing $1 million in shrink-wrapped bills, hand-carried into New York by the former president
of Gabon for his daughter to buy a Manhattan apartment. Purchases of a stretch Hummer H2 armored limousine and C-130 Hercules military transport planes for a civil war in Angola. And a shell company named Sweet Pink used to funnel millions of dollars into the United States from Equatorial Guinea.

These and other deals and money transfers took place in recent years because of inadequate controls on money laundering at large American banks and unregulated American lawyers, real estate agents and lobbyists,
according to a Senate report released late Wednesday ...........