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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:44 PM
Subject: KEEP ME INFORMED
Good Day,
I am a staff of Private Banking
Services at the Bank of China (BOC). I am
contacting you concerning our
customer and, an investment placed under our
banks management 3 years
ago.
I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this
mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a
result of this mail. I contacted you independently of our
investigation and no
one is informed of this communication. I would like to
intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you.
In 2002, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/0012 came to our
bank to engage in
business discussions with our Private Banking Services
Department. He informed
us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.375
million United States Dollars,
which he wished to have us turn over
(invest) on his behalf.
I was the officer assigned to his case; I made
numerous suggestions in line with
my duties as the de-facto chief
operations officer of the Private Banking
Services Department, especially
given the volume of funds he wished to put into
our bank. We met on
numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed. I
encouraged him
to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored
route in
my advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000
traditional
stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative
investments.
Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities
and made
attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued
profit
and interest stood at this point at over 10 million United
States
Dollars,
this margin was not the full potential of the fund but
he desired low risk
guaranteed returns on investments.
In mid 2004,
he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an
urgent
investment requiring cash payments in Europe. He directed that I
liquidate
the funds and had it deposited with a firm. I informed him that the
bank
would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order
not
to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 %
deduction from
the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He
complained about the
charges but later came around when I explained to him
the complexities of the
task he was asking of us. Cash movement across
borders has become especially
strict since the incident of 9/11. I
contacted my affiliate in and had the
funds available.
I undertook
all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions
to the
letter and had the funds deposited in a security consultancy firm, the
firm
is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits from high net
worth
individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable products
or
undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small
and
highly private organization is familiar especially to the highly placed
and
well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money
was
deposited. He told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his
arrival
from Norway later that week. This was the last communication we
had, this
transpired around 9th October 2004.
In January this year,
we got a call from the security firm informing us that the
inactivity of
that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far
as I was
concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I
was
the only one who knew about the deposit , and I could not understand why
he
had not come forward to claim his
deposit. I made futile efforts to
locate him I immediately passed the task of
locating him to the
int
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