Regulators shut the bank on 5 July 1991; it had laundered for the Medellín cartel, held Noriega's accounts, and secretly owned Washington's First American Bankshares.
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$10 billion to $17 billion in losses; about 1 million depositorsA Singapore trader hid losses in error account 88888; the Kobe earthquake sank his Nikkei bets and Britain's oldest merchant bank failed on 26 Feb 1995, sold to ING for £1.
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£827 million lossThe Mexican president's brother moved funds through Citibank into a Cayman shell called Trocca; the bank skipped its own know-your-customer checks. GAO reported in Oct 1998.
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$90 million to $100 million moved, 1992 to 1994Core samples from Indonesia's Busang deposit were salted with gold dust; the Strathcona report exposed it on 4 May 1997.
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About CAD$6 billion peak market value wiped outA US Customs sting announced 18 May 1998 indicted Mexican bank officials from CONFIA, Bancomer, and Serfin for laundering Cali and Juárez cartel money.
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112 arrests; $35 million seized, $110 million more targetedA BNY vice president and her husband ran unlicensed transfer businesses that moved Russian money through the bank from 1996 to August 1999; charges were unsealed 5 Oct 1999.
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$7 billion movedThe hospital chain filed fraudulent Medicare cost reports and paid physician kickbacks; subsidiaries pleaded guilty in Dec 2000 and civil cases settled in June 2003.
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About $1.7 billion recovered, then the largest health care fraud case in US history1990s
Books first, then official reports and court records, then key journalism, grouped by case.
