Reply #3: Reports last week citing the accounts Pinochet held mentioned [View All]

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Coutts Bank (USA).

In 1988 the Manager of the Cavendish Square branch of Coutts Bank plc, located in the Harley Street medical district of central London, Mr Graham Harper, was sent on unconditional 'compassionate' leave after an unexpected visit from SO13 Special Branch cops to the bank.

They were investigating the disappearance of a wealthy customer's £3 million from an account held at the branch, following reports that a Provisional IRA gang member posing as an account holder had forged a signature on paperwork and authorised the transfer of this cash abroad to nominee accounts held in other names.

Interpol eventually traced the funds via a network of offshore accounts in the Channels Islands to a branch of Coutts USA.

The Coutts manager eventually testified in a theft/moneylaundering court case in the Old Bailey and named various members of Robert Maxwell's family as being implicated in the £3million illicit transfer.

Harper eventually took early retirement after suffering a severe nervous breakdown.