Pubdate: Fri, 20 Jul 2001
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: World Briefing
Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: Elizabeth Olson

LIECHTENSTEIN: MONEY-LAUNDERING CHARGES

Two financial advisers in the tiny country have been charged with 
laundering millions of dollars for the Cali drug cartel in Colombia, the 
chief prosecutor said. Eugen von Hoffen, 49, and Rudolf Ritter, 47, were 
charged with conspiring to hide revenues from South American drug 
trafficking over a three-year period beginning in 1997. Liechtenstein began 
cracking down on illegal money movements last year after it was listed by 
an international task force as a safe harbor for dirty money.
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