Tens of thousands of U.S. taxpayers sheepishly stepped forward to declare overseas bank accounts.
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The money was paid into an overseas bank account controlled by Mrs Townsley and her husband.
Most of the money will end up in overseas bank accounts of Russian mafiosi and their allies.
The winning bid, by Thailand's Mr. Charoen, was financed by Singaporean lenders United Overseas Bank Ltd.
Mr Suharto himself has been evasive, saying only that he has no shares in foreign firms and no money in overseas bank accounts.
Last year SIAS also drew attention to an initial public offering in which the local United Overseas Bank (UOB) applied for shares underwritten by one of its own units.
He received financing to back the deal, the largest merger-and-acquisition transaction introduced in Asia last year, from a group of banks including United Overseas Bank Ltd.
But others in the ruling establishment may treasure their overseas bank accounts and the loot they regularly extract from the Iranian economy more than their president's deadly ideological fervor.
He has repeatedly denied allegations of graft and was cleared by the Afghan attorney general's office of allegations of illicit cash transfers to overseas bank accounts belonging to him and his relatives.
Responding to a question from the prosecutor, Mr. Botha asked the court to deny bail to Mr. Pistorius, whom he said is a flight risk, citing evidence he has overseas bank accounts.
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Some misty-eyed commentators hark back to the honest days of the 1970s, when the revelation that his wife held a few thousand dollars in a then-illegal overseas bank account was enough to make the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, resign.
Overseas Union Bank (No. 77) reported that profits dropped 28% in the first half of 1998.
Singapore's Overseas Union Bank (No. 116) plans a big push in both regional and consumer banking.
When it came time for Goldman to allocate Facebook shares to its clients overseas, the investment bank saw so much demand it was often unable to give people the amount they requested, said one of the people familiar with the matter.
The clean-energy export initiative is also being sponsored by the Departments of Commerce, State, and Agriculture and a clutch of federal agencies like the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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In response to overseas media reports that the Bank of China has closed the account of North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, Shi Yinhong, an international affairs expert at Beijing's Renmin University tells Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that Beijing is losing patience with Pyongyang.
Western Union's money transfer business seems shrewdly geared to the 8.7 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. If they walk into a regular bank to wire money overseas, the fees will be lower, but the senders are asked for identification and personal details they don't want to provide.
Mr Takamiya says returns on overseas assets at MUFG's biggest bank generate about 2.5%, versus less than 1.5% at home.
The report also found that from 1995 to 2009 the Indian private sector shifted away from bank deposits to deposits in overseas financial sectors.
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The Vere Bird government welcomed an as-yet unknighted Mr Stanford to Antigua in the late 1980s after the authorities in the British overseas territory of Montserrat closed his offshore bank.
Israel and Egypt are the biggest recipients of U.S. aid in the package, which provides funds for multinational organizations like the World Bank and a raft of overseas policy initiatives from nuclear nonproliferation to family planning.
The Bank Mandiri accounts allow the overseas workers to deposit their pay back home and get help with their finances, but their true value lies in the future, says Riza Zulkifli, senior vice president of retail for the bank.
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While overseas, Obama will also visit the West Bank and Jordan, the White House said.
Companies thus turned for loans to India's unfashionable state banks, which hold almost 70% of bank assets, rather than borrowing overseas or raising money on the stockmarket.
Camila's teachers helped her to apply for political asylum and the manager of the British bank where her father had an overseas account agreed to cover her outstanding school fees.
And it was the cosy, crony capitalism practised by the overseas Chinese, with its murky accounting and bank loans for friends, that allowed so many Asian firms to over-borrow and get into their current mess.
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My colleague Jesse Jenkins and I warned about this last Friday, when we argued that cap and trade advocates would use recent news that Deutsche Bank is moving clean energy investment overseas as evidence that cap and trade would have kept investment in the United States.
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Its Union Bank of California subsidiary is the largest overseas franchise of any Japanese financial institution.
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Terror suspects will be banned from overseas travel without permission, limited to only one bank account, and prevented from meeting with certain associates.
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