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F rom the day Robert Vesco arrived in Costa Rica in 1972 until his departure five years later, hardly a week went by that his name wasn’t in the headlines. The fugitive U.S. financier, accused in the U.S. of looting Investors Overseas Services (IOS) of $224 million, and his six associates moved his troubled financial empire here from his earlier haven in the Bahamas on invitation of then- President José (Pepe) Figueres, hoping to set up a “financial district” with its own set of laws – a “country within a country” to serve as a refuge for international funds of dubious origin.

Don Pepe’s determination to champion Vesco disillusioned many admirers of the visionary leader who led Costa Rica’s 1948 revolution, instituted the country’s modern democracy and abolished its army. But the feisty three-time President defiantly shrugged off all criticism, saying Costa Rica needed investments and shouldn’t question their source.

Vesco wasted no time repaying his hosts. Shortly after arriving with his yacht and lavishly- appointed Boeing 707, he moved his wife Pat and children Danny, Tony, Dawn and Bobby (son Patrick was born here) into a luxurious, heavily guarded walled home office compound in the eastern suburb of Curridabat and invested in numerous Figueres family operations. He bought bars, restaurants and casinos, invested in radio and TV stations through bearer-share corporations, acquired a large spread, complete with airport, in the northern province of Guanacaste, and even bought Country Day School from its founders, Robert and Marian Baker, to set up a center for children with learning disabilities so Bobby would receive specialized instruction.

He also financed Excelsior, a daily newspaper created as a voice for Figueres’ National Liberation Party to compete with the leading daily La Nación. In one of the decade’s biggest scandals, the controversial paper folded after racking up mountainous debts; its owners were never identified and government funds earmarked for poverty programs were used to pay off its employees.

Legendary Largesse

The financier’s largesse quickly became legendary – his name was linked (accurately or not) to almost every new venture, and communities throughout the country proclaimed themselves pro-Vesco because he had bankrolled local projects. At one point his investments here were believed to total between $25 million and $60 million.

In 1974 The Tico Times published an exclusive interview with “The Man Behind the Myth,” which revealed him as articulate, wily, cocky and wryly humorous. Already he was making a career of battling what he termed “political persecution” here and in the U.S., and would grow increasingly bitter as pressure against him mounted.

The U.S. had requested his extradition based on an allegedly illegal $200,000 contribution to the campaign of U.S. President Richard Nixon, but at the end of Figueres’ term, the so-called “Vesco Law” was hastily pushed through Costa Rica’s Congress, giving the presidency final say over extradition matters.New President Daniel Oduber, from Figueres’ Liberation Party, informed Vesco publicly that he could stay in Costa Rica as long as he respected local laws.

Costa Vesco

But Ticos were not happy about what the famous fugitive was doing to their country’s international image. One U.S. cartoon, widely reprinted here, showed a tourist arriving in “Costa Vesco”. Calling him “a whale in a puddle,” veteran local journalist Julio Suñol detailed the Vesco “takeover” in his book, “Robert Vesco Compra Una República” (“Robert Vesco Buys a Republic”.)

Both Guido Fernández, director of La Nación, and Rodrigo Madrigal, director of the daily La República, issued repeated calls for his ouster, alleging that he had tried to intervene in local politics and had ties to the Mafia. In the U.S, he was accused of negotiations to import 2000 submachine guns to Costa Rica and finance an arms factor with Figueres’ son, José Martí.

In 1976, The Tico Times published an exclusive interview with Vesco’s former pilot, Al (“Ike”) Eisenhauer, who had “hijacked” the financier’s Boeing in Panama and flown it to the U.S. at the request of U.S. officials, then wrote a book about his adventures with Vesco titled “The Flying Carpetbagger.” In the interview, Eisenhauer recounted many of Vesco’s shenanigans with the Figueres family, and described his former boss as “just a Detroit row-house kid.”

“I love that guy,” he said. “He’s the perfect bullshit artist – a genius.”

Meanwhile, elderly local architect Carlos Rechnitzer, who claimed he lost $250,000 in IOS, sued Vesco in local court, in a “Mouse that Roared” drama that dogged Vesco throughout his stay. In separate manifestos, 216 respected leaders and 5,000 citizens urged President Oduber to expel the financier as “harmful to the country,” and Congress began debating his ouster as an undesirable alien. Vesco spent his 39th birthday defending himself on national radio and TV.

From Bad to Tragicomic

A careless remark by Don Pepe during an interview with The New Republic magazine finally brought the curtain down on the Vesco Era, when he said Vesco had financed a “major part” of Oduber’s 1974 campaign. President and financier were summoned to testify before a legislative commission. La Nación and La República reported that companies connected to Vesco had received the lion’s share of profits from the 1975 nationalization of local gas distributors, and the clamor for his expulsion grew.

The situation went from bad to tragicomic when perennial maverick presidential candidate G.W. Villalobos wrapped himself in the Costa Rican flag and fired 60 shots into the wall of Vesco’s compound before being arrested.

In a futile effort to keep Vesco from becoming a campaign issue, Oduber went on national radio and TV to say he’d asked him to leave as soon as the lawsuit against him here was resolved.Vesco, however, applied for Costa Rican citizenship and said he hoped to stay. President-elect Rodrigo Carazo vowed to keep his campaign promise and expel him.

The local court hearing the Rechnitzer case made it easy one everybody (except Rechnitzer) by throwing out the lawsuit, freeing Vesco to leave, which he did three days before Carazo took office. The new President ordered Costa Rica’s borders closed to him, and his citizenship bid was rejected.

The “whale” eventually headed for a new haven in Cuba, but for years afterwards, “Vesco sightings” here were as common as Elvis sightings in the U.S. as the financier made several attempts to return to Costa Rica.

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When He wasn't sailing his 137ft yacht around the Caribbean, Robert Lee Vesco might be found dancing with mini-skirted women in a discotheque on the private Boeing 707 he called the Silver Phyllis. Since he did not appear to have any woman friend or relative of that name, aides assumed it was a play on the word "syphilis". A warning, perhaps, of the dangers its pleasures presented.

From the disco he would move to the sauna, the only one ever known to have been built on board an aircraft, and then to his private bedroom. Perchance to dream of his rise from metal shaper in a Detroit car factory, as the grandson of Slovenian and Italian immigrants, to one of the world's wealthiest men at 35.

Mr Vesco is now 60, and he has traded his favoured red velvet smoking jackets for a grey prison uniform in the Cuban state security prison, Villa Marista, in Havana. Awaiting verdict and sentencing on charges of economic fraud against the Castro regime, he could be in jail until he is 80, but at least, say diplomats, he is too old and ailing to be sent to one of the Caribbean island's notorious forced labour camps. In those, able-bodied prisoners are forced to cut sugar cane, barefoot, for 12 hours a day in blistering sun, according to human rights groups. A panel of five judges will decide whether Mr Vesco abused the Cuban state pharmaceutical industry by developing a would-be "miracle drug" - supposed to cure cancer, Aids and herpes and add years, perhaps decades, to a person's life by boosting the immune system - behind the government's back. He told the court the Cuban authorities were involved in the research for the drug, known as TX or Trioxidal.

According to Donald "Don-Don" Nixon, nephew of the late president and a long-time friend of Mr Vesco who was detained with him in Havana in May last year but later released, even relatives of Cuba's president, Fidel Castro, were involved in the research and test production at the state-run Labiofam lab in Havana. Mr Nixon described the drug as "the biggest breakthrough in the history of man, worth one billion dollars a month net" and said it had cured his own wife's cancer.

Once nicknamed "Swifty" or "Rapid Robert" by business associates because of the speed with which he could multiply his assets as well as the fast life he led, Mr Vesco has spent the last quarter century fleeing American justice. He was the "White Knight" who in 1970 "rescued" the late Bernie Cornfeld's Geneva-based Investors' Overseas Services, which asked: "Do You Sincerely Want to be Rich?" and promised: "I'll make you a millionaire."

Tempting small investors, IOS had become one of the world's biggest financial groups in the 1960s, but by 1970 it seemed on the brink of collapse, despite still controlling $400m (now pounds 258m) in funds. For $5m, "Swifty" took control of a financial hall of mirrors that was to push him into Fortune magazine's list of the world's wealthiest men, but would ultimately force him to live on the run.

While Mr Vesco was buying the plane and the $1.3m yacht, investors began noticing their returns were rapidly diminishing. Their concern deepened when they could not discover where their money was invested. The Securities and Exchange Commission found in 1972 that at least $224m of investors' money had vanished, presumably into Mr Vesco's own accounts. It charged him with fraud, and he became a fugitive. The custom-fitted Boeing 707, described as more luxurious than the US President's Air Force One, was impounded and eventually bought by Imelda Marcos, who was reported to have outbid Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger.

Mr Vesco flitted between the Bahamas, Costa Rica and Nicaragua until settling in Cuba in 1982, where President Castro accepted him "for humanitarian reasons". Calling himself Tom Adams, and living in Havana, close to Mr Castro's own mansion, he was known to neighbours as Tom el Americano.

His security appeared second only to that of el Jefe Maximo himself, with two carloads of heavily armed men following him everywhere and half a dozen extra "caddies" on the golf course. Whether the state-paid heavies meant he was friendly with President Castro was never clear, but in court last week Mr Vesco said he had never met the Cuban leader.

Diplomats at the US Interests Section in Havana said last week that Washington was still "interested" in having Mr Vesco extradited. Since the IOS money has probably evaporated, the most important charge would be one by the state of Florida that he helped to organise a "bridge" in Cuba for cocaine flights by the Medellin cartel from Colombia to the United States.

Carlos Lehder, a former Medellin cartel chief now in jail in the US, testified that Mr Vesco had acted as a middleman for cocaine shipments. Lehder's pilot, Carlos Fernando Arenas, also in jail, testified that Mr Castro's brother Raul, Cuban defence minister, met him and Mr Vesco to discuss the arrangement. Other sources said that Cuba used the returning cocaine planes to fly weapons to guerrillas of the pro-Cuba M-19 group in Colombia.

When the financier was arrested at his home last year, the Cuban authorities said he would face charges of being a "provocateur" and "an agent of foreign powers". By the time the court case started last week - it ended after three days - those charges had been dropped, and Mr Vesco was accused only of economic fraud centring on the "miracle drug". His second wife, Lidia Alfonso, a Cuban, faced similar charges.

Many diplomats in Havana believe the fraud charges may have been a smokescreen by Mr Castro to keep Mr Vesco behind bars, where he cannot talk. Some believe "Swifty" had planned to flee Cuba, perhaps to reveal what he knew of alleged Cuban involvement in drug trafficking. Others believe the trial is a battle for control of the drug TX in case its "miracle" properties prove to be true.

If Mr Vesco is convicted, his four children from his first marriage believe he will die in jail. In court, the 6ft 1in former owner of Silver Phyllis appeared to weigh around nine stone, almost six stone less than in his 1970s heyday. "We are worried about his health," his son Danny said. "We hope the Cubans will be compassionate with him."

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There may never have been, and there may never be, another “fugitive financier” quite like Robert L. Vesco.

For one thing, Vesco always knew the value of a dollar--especially the millions of dollars he allegedly squirreled away without the consent of their previous owners.

For the record:

12:00 a.m. June 11, 1995 For the Record Los Angeles Times Sunday June 11, 1995 Home Edition Part A Page 3 Metro Desk 1 inches; 29 words Type of Material: Correction Vesco case: A headline in Saturday’s editions stated that federal prosecutors sent a senior attorney to Cuba to seek the extradition of fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco. The attorney was sent to Miami.

After more than two decades of living lavishly on the lam in and around the Caribbean, he seemed Friday to be headed for the waiting embrace of the Justice Department.

Federal prosecutors dispatched a senior attorney to Miami to oversee the final preparation of legal niceties aimed at extraditing him from Cuba, where the bearded and all-but-forgotten Vesco has owned an opulent villa for the last 12 years.

If the extradition is successful, it not only will mark a turn in U.S.-Cuban cooperation, but it also will bring to an end a legendary odyssey.

This millionaire-on-the-run took flight 23 years ago after being charged by the U.S. government with a huge mutual funds embezzlement scheme totaling $224 million. And there were other allegations: of trying to buy government cooperation through an illegal $200,000 cash donation to the campaign to reelect President Richard Nixon in 1972 and, more recently, of cocaine smuggling.

From his various bases in the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Antiqua, Nicaragua and, finally, Cuba, Vesco seemingly thumbed his nose at U.S. authorities and the investors who had once believed in him. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he jetted about in his private planes--including a custom Boeing 707 equipped with a sauna and disco--or cruised on his luxurious yacht. There were accusations that he was involved in the drug trade with Carlos Lehder, the now-jailed kingpin of the Medellin cocaine cartel.

Throughout his life in exile, he took pains to cultivate his hosts, and would move on when the hospitality wore thin. In his early years as a fugitive, he loaned $2.15 million to Costa Rica’s then-president, Pepe Figueres, who allowed him to live in a palatial home guarded by armed toughs and an intricate set of television cameras. In those days, Vesco would meet with reporters and deny any improprieties, and usually left the impression that he missed life in the United States and would return home without hesitation if he could work out his problems with federal authorities.

Furnishing several mansions in recent years at or near Havana, Vesco adopted a lifestyle far above that of the Cuban people or their leaders. It was unclear Friday exactly why Cuba authorities had detained him. White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry told reporters, “we’re attempting to determine on what basis he’s being detained,” though he said it appears to be for alleged offenses in Cuba.

In any event, as a result of his arrest, Vesco is now less a rich man in charge of his own fate than he is a figure in the complex and changing relationship between Cuba and the United States.

On Friday, outside Vesco’s whitewashed villa in Atabey, a residential district of west Havana, a man who said he was an employee of the Interior Ministry told reporters that Vesco was “under investigation” at Villa Marista, the headquarters of state security in the Cuban capital.

Vesco’s home appeared to be deserted Friday, and its front door was sealed shut with tape, Reuters news service reported.

Vesco, 59, once was an unlikely candidate for the jet set. The son of an auto worker, he began his working career by helping to design automobile grills.

In 1960, Vesco was maintaining a quiet middle-class existence as a $200-a-week engineer with Olin Mathieson Chemical Co. in New York City.

Vesco commuted by train each day from a rented Connecticut home that he shared with his wife and children. Vesco later spent time selling aluminum storm windows, but he had bigger ambitions.

Vesco then founded a New Jersey machine tool company called International Controls Corp. that specialized in making parts for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That company, the joining of several small engineering and electronic firms, was formed using such rough takeover tactics that the deal twice landed Vesco in court. But the company brought Vesco his first $1 million by 1970.

He then bought Investors Overseas Services, a Geneva investment firm, from its founder, British playboy and businessman Bernard Cornfeld. Vesco promised to bail out the struggling mutual fund empire with new capital.

Instead, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged in November, 1972, Vesco pulled off “one of the largest frauds ever perpetrated.”

The SEC accused Vesco of selling off IOS’ blue-chip U.S. holdings and shipping the money out of the country. The funds allegedly were put into small, virtually unknown or allegedly nonexistent companies in Central America and the Caribbean, where the money could be used for Vesco’s personal purposes, the SEC charged.

Institutions and ordinary investors who had bought shares in the Geneva-based investment firm’s mutual funds found their holdings to be worthless.

Vesco denied all the charges, saying that the investments were sound transactions made with an eye toward helping developing countries.

In 1972, Vesco funneled an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon’s reelection campaign, authorities said in court papers. They called it a ploy to get Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans to fix his fraud case.

After a short stay in the Bahamas to avoid the reach of U.S. law, Vesco moved to Costa Rica in 1973. Five years later, when a new Costa Rican president threatened to arrest him, he relocated in the Bahamas. In July, 1981, he left the Bahamas after the failure of another of his businesses, the Bahamas Commonwealth Bank.

A few months later Vesco was spotted in Antigua, and he later showed up in Nicaragua, where he began to get involved in cocaine trafficking, according to congressional testimony.

He moved to Cuba in 1983 with his wife and at least two of his five daughters. Six years later he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida on charges of conspiring with Medellin leader Carlos Lehder to smuggle cocaine into the United States.

Administration officials stressed that the abrupt detention of Vesco in Cuba was undertaken solely by Cuban officials without pressure from the United States.

State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly on Friday said that “we have told the government of Cuba that we are interested in getting Mr. Vesco back in the United States, as there are pending charges against him in the United States, and that we will be happy to provide them with some further details.”

Asked if the Clinton Administration specifically had sought his arrest, McCurry replied: “I’m not aware of any conversations that occurred prior to Mr. Vesco’s detention . . . related to his detention.”

Justice Department sources and private attorneys said the exact procedure for getting Vesco back to the United States remains somewhat uncertain, in view of the United States’ refusal to give full diplomatic recognition to the regime of Fidel Castro and its near-total trade embargo on the island nation.

“I wouldn’t go down to the Tarmac yet and wait for Vesco to arrive,” one official said.

However, if the Castro government wanted to hand over Vesco as a sign of its willingness to improve relations with the United States, he could be returned relatively soon, others said.

Seymour Glanzer, a former federal prosecutor experienced in immigration and extradition matters, said that in view of Cuba’s status, Vesco would be powerless to prevent any decision by authorities there to relinquish him.

“There’s no way to defend against it,” Glanzer said. “He would be whisked into the United States and that’s it.”

Glanzer said “an informal, physical turnover” of Vesco was more likely than a formal extradition procedure initiated by the United States.

Justice Department officials, however, said the United States might try to use an old extradition treaty with Cuba that dates back to 1904--before Castro was born. One official said Castro recognized that treaty in returning a few airplane hijackers to the United States during the 1970s, which seems to set a precedent.

To speed the decisions, Mark Richard, a senior career official in the department’s criminal division, has flown to Miami to begin contacts there, sources said.

Philip T. White, who formerly headed the department’s office of international affairs, said Latin American nations often prefer “informal extradition” of criminal suspects who are not citizens of their countries. White said Cuba “may just want to shove him across the border” or deport him to the United States.

At the State Department, Shelly said Cuba has signaled its interest in sending Vesco back by asking for details of the U.S. charges against him. However, she said Vesco’s detention had not been discussed in the secret talks in Toronto that occurred several weeks ago between Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff and Cuban envoy Ricardo Alarcon. Those rare face-to-face negotiations produced the new Administration policy of sending Cuban asylum-seekers back to the island.

Times staff writer Stanley Meisler contributed to this story from Washington. Jackson reported from Washington and Rivera Brooks from Los Angeles.

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The Vesco Saga

The Robert L. Vesco case was described at the time as the biggest multinational business crime ever. The scandal featured a complex web of shell companies and corporate networks.

THE ACCUSATIONS

1970: Vesco, who owns a machine tool company, buys control of a Swiss-based mutual fund, Investors Overseas Services.

1972: SEC charges Vesco with looting $224 million from the mutual fund.

1972: Vesco allegedly tries to halt the SEC investigation by giving $200,000 in campaign contributions to then-President Richard Nixon’s re-election effort.

1980: Senate investigators say he tried to buy off the Jimmy Carter Administration to get cargo planes for Libya. When nobody would assist, they said, he arranged for the Libyans to pay Billy Carter $220,000--an effort apparently aimed at embarrassing his brother, the President.

1985: U.S. Customs official accuse Vesco of collaborating with Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Nicaragua’s Marxist government to bring cocaine into the United States.

1987: A U.S. attorney identifies Vesco as a co-conspirator in Medellin cartel boss Carlos Lehder’s cocaine shipments from a Bahamian island to Florida. This accusation serves as the basis for Vesco’s extradition from Cuba.

LIFE AS A FUGITIVE

1. 1972: Disappears from the United States.

2. Mid-’70s: Spends five years in Costa Rica, with the protection of the nation’s president. When new president is elected, Vesco is expelled.

3. Late ‘70s: Moves to Bahamas. He is accused of paying off the prime minister and other Bahamian officials to ensure that he is not extradited.

4. 1981: Expelled from Bahamas. He tries to return to Costa Rica, is refused entry and goes to Cuba.

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A Last Vanishing Act for Robert Vesco, Fugitive

HAVANA — Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier who spent most of his life eluding American justice, might even have managed to die on the sly.

Mr. Vesco, who was sentenced to a long prison term in Cuba in 1996 and was wanted in the United States for crimes ranging from securities fraud and drug trafficking to political bribery, died more than five months ago, on Nov. 23, from lung cancer, say people close to him. If so, it was never reported publicly by the Cuban authorities, who said Friday that they considered him a “nonissue.” American officials said Friday they knew nothing about his death.

“We don’t know that it occurred,” an American official said.

If Mr. Vesco indeed eluded the American authorities until his final day, it was the fitting end to his nearly four decades on the run. He was wanted for, among other things, bilking some $200 million from credulous investors in the 1970s, making an illegal contribution to Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign and trying to arrange a deal during the Carter administration to let Libya buy American planes in exchange for bribes to United States officials.

Mr. Vesco last made the news a decade ago when he was sentenced to prison in Cuba, where he had taken sanctuary, for a financial scheme. He emerged in recent years and lived a quiet life in Havana until he contracted lung cancer. After about a week in a hospital, friends say, he died and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Given the controversial nature of the man, none of his friends dared be identified for fear of running afoul of the Cuban authorities. While word of Mr. Vesco’s death could be the final ruse of a 72-year-old modern-day buccaneer who had every reason to drop off the radar, it would have to be an elaborate one.

Records at Colón Cemetery in Havana indicate that a Robert Vesco was buried there on Nov. 24, and photographs and videos viewed by The New York Times show a man resembling him in a casket with his longtime Cuban companion looking over him.

Other photos show him coughing and clearly in pain in a hospital bed on what a friend said was the day before he died. There are also photos of a small group of people attending his burial.

His last days, a friend said, were in marked contrast to his ebullient pre-prison phase, when he partied lavishly, chain smoked and talked big.

Some of those who knew Mr. Vesco said it would not surprise them if he had orchestrated a fake death, to slip away one more time. “He could have died,” said Arthur Herzog, an author who interviewed Mr. Vesco in Cuba for a biography. “But Bob has used disguises in the past.”

On top of that, Mr. Herzog said, an intermediary who lives on the island had left the impression that he was in contact with Mr. Vesco in Cuba within the last month.

After a criminal odyssey that began on Wall Street, Mr. Vesco fled the United States in 1971, along the way repeatedly demonstrating the power of money to overcome any ideology.

His associates and protectors included democratically elected presidents in Costa Rica, the left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the cocaine barons of Colombia, the terrorism-tainted government in Libya, and, finally, the Communist government of Fidel Castro.

Whereas the American government considered Mr. Vesco to be an American fugitive, he had apparently somehow gained Italian citizenship. A friend provided a copy of an Italian passport issued in 2006 that bore Mr. Vesco’s name and photograph.

The friend said representatives from the Italian Embassy had visited Mr. Vesco while he was in jail and had assisted with his funeral arrangements. An Italian Embassy official did not return calls seeking comment.

Having lived comfortably in Havana for more than a dozen years, Mr. Vesco was convicted and jailed there for fraud in 1996 after reportedly double-crossing Fidel Castro’s relatives in a bogus wonder-drug deal.

How much truth there was to the allegation was impossible to know for certain because accusations against the shadowy financier have always seemed to mix rumor and fact.

At the height of his notoriety in the 1970s, Mr. Vesco looked like a tough guy out of Hollywood central casting — tall, craggy-faced, with a mustache, long sideburns and sunglasses. He liked to burnish his image as an unpredictable rogue driven as much by perverse pride as by crass profit.

He also delighted in thumbing his nose at Cuban agents who were on his trail. They responded by suggesting that Mr. Vesco was the mastermind behind every sort of money-laundering, narcotics and smuggling plot in the Caribbean.

“With even a fraction of what he was supposed to have stolen he could have disappeared,” wrote Mr. Herzog, in his 1987 biography, “Vesco: From Wall Street to Castro’s Cuba, The Rise, Fall and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime.”

Instead, Mr. Vesco seemed to have a compulsion to call attention to himself from his places of exile. A self-made man, he seemed hardly able to help it.

A high school dropout from Detroit, he lied about his age to get a job on an automobile assembly line. At 21, he moved to New Jersey to work for a struggling manufacturer of machine tools.

He took over the company when it went bankrupt, rebuilt it and renamed it the International Controls Corporation. By the age of 30, Mr. Vesco was a millionaire.

He later turned his sights on a Switzerland-based mutual fund company, Investment Overseas Services (I.O.S.). When that, too, ran into trouble, Mr. Vesco offered to rescue the company and was embraced as a white knight by investors terrified of losing their savings.

He bought I.O.S. in 1970 for less than $5 million, gaining control of an estimated $400 million in funds. The accounting at the company had been so chaotic that Mr. Vesco, by adding a few subterfuges of his own, was able to plunder its holdings at will.

After numerous complaints, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission carried out an investigation. In 1972, the commission charged Mr. Vesco and others in a civil suit with stealing more than $224 million.

But Mr. Vesco had already fled, first to the Bahamas and then to Costa Rica. There, he established a close friendship with President José Figueres, plowing some $11 million into his adopted country.

“I wish more Vescos would come to Costa Rica — we need them,” said Mr. Figueres on television in response to criticism that he was harboring a criminal.

Mr. Vesco also befriended Donald A. Nixon Jr., a nephew of President Richard M. Nixon, and gave $200,000 to the Nixon campaign, apparently hoping the president would help quash the investigation against him.

It was to no avail. But to the frustration of the F.B.I. Mr. Vesco remained tantalizingly out of reach in Costa Rica, where he passed himself off as a progressive dairy and cattle rancher, and an investor in high-tech projects.

Eventually, one of his high-tech brainstorms — a factory to make machine guns, which included President Figueres’s son as a partner — became his undoing.

A public and political outcry ensued, and by 1978 he was forced to leave for the Bahamas, the beginning of years of hopscotching that included stops in Antigua and Nicaragua, before Cuba finally accepted him for “humanitarian” reasons.

“We don’t care what he did in the United States,” Fidel Castro said. “We’re not interested in the money he has.”

In Cuba, Mr. Vesco grew a beard, donned a white guayabera shirt and passed himself off as a Canadian citizen named Tom Adams. He and his family lived in a suburban Havana house that was modest by United States standards but lavish for Cubans. Within a few years, allegations began to circulate about Mr. Vesco’s involvement in narcotics trafficking, and he was named as a co-conspirator in the trial in Florida of Carlos Lehder Rivas, a reputed leader of Colombia’s biggest drug cartel.

Mr. Vesco eventually ran afoul of the Castro government with a scheme to produce a wonder drug that supposedly cured cancer, AIDS, arthritis and even the common cold. He was accused of defrauding a state-run biotechnology laboratory run by Fidel Castro’s nephew, Antonio Fraga Castro, and sentenced to 13 years. After serving most of his time in a private cell in a large prison in eastern Cuba, Mr. Vesco was quietly released in 2005 and lived so simply in recent years in Havana that a friend said he did not know what had happened to his fortune.

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Robert L. Vesco

Robert vesco, ’70s financier, is dead at 71.

The death of the financier Robert L. Vesco, confirmed by documents and interviews, has closed the books on one of Washington’s longest and most prominent fugitive hunts.

By Marc Lacey

A Last Vanishing Act for Robert Vesco, Fugitive

Mr. Vesco, who spent most of his life eluding American justice, died in Cuba last year, people close to him said.

By Marc Lacey and Jonathan Kandell

Banned From Street, but Not Necessarily Banished

Article on Wall Street figures who have been banned from Street, but not necessarily banished, and neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing; Strong Capital Management chief executive Richard S Strong's agreement to pay $60 million and be barred from securities industry in settlement with Securities and Exchange Commission noted; photos (M)

By Landon Thomas Jr.

Harry L. Sears, 82, Politician And Courier for Vesco Cash

Harry L Sears, lawyer and New Jersey Republican figure who delivered cash from financier Robert Vesco to Pres Nixon's campaign in 1972, dies at age 82 (S)

By Douglas Martin

Ideas & Trends: Life Styles of the Rich and Felonious; Steal a Bundle. Get Out of Town. Now Try to Call It Home.

Disappearance of Martin R Frankel, who is suspected of masterminding huge insurance fraud, is latest example of life styles of the rich and felonious; photos of Robert Vesco before he fled, and much later, in Cuban custody (M)

By Leslie Eaton

Assault With a Fiscal Weapon; As Swindlers Branch Out, Victims Want to Be Heard

Victims' rights movement is turning its attention to those injured by white-collar swindles; their advocates have already succeeded in persuading Congress to allow money from special fund for crime victims to be used to help those injured by economic crimes, and first federally financed pilot programs began last year; Kathryn M Turman, acting director of Office for Victims of Crime in Justice Department, says these efforts are likely to be expanded in coming years because of growing recognition of devastation of these crimes; new uses of technology, especially Americans' infatuation with Internet, have contributed to shift to defrauding individuals from defrauding institutions and overall stock market; Jane Y Kusic, who lost money in real estate scheme, and now helps others who have been cleaned out by fraud, comments; notable white collar criminals, including Charles Ponzi, Robert L Vesco and Ivar Kreuger, discussed; graph; photos (M)

Vesco Jailed; Case Not Closed

Fugitive financier Robert L Vesco has been sentenced to 13 years in jail in Cuba in fraud involving unproven drug; move crushes hopes he will be returned to United States for trial on fraud and drug charges (S)

By Steven Lee Myers

U.S. Demands Vesco's Return From Cuba, but It Is Unlikely

Clinton Administration demands extradition of fugitive financier Robert L Vesco after Cuban court convicts him of economic crimes and sentences him to 13 years in prison; officials acknowledge chances of Vesco's return to US are remote at best (M)

Cuba Sentences Fugitive Businessman Vesco to 13 Years for Fraud

Cuban sentences Robert L Vesco to 13 years in jail for defrauding country's Health Ministry and other investors while seeking to market unproven drug; sentences his wife, Lidia Alfonso Llauger, to nine years (M)

JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR.

New Home, Old Story

Cuban court's trial of US fugitive Robert Vesco for trying to defraud state-run pharmaceutical company noted; photo (S)

By Larry Rohter

Robert Vesco, the Fugitive Financier, Goes on Trial in Cuba on Fraud Charges

Robert L Vesco, American financier who fled US more than 25 years ago to avoid Federal charges of fraud, goes on trial in Havana on charges of organizing complex scheme to bilk Cuba's Health Ministry and other investors in miracle drug; Cuban wife, Lidia Alfonso, is co-defentant; he has pleaded not guilty to charges (M)

World News Briefs;Fugitive U.S. Financier Faces Trial in Cuba

Robert Vesco, the fugitive American financier who has been in custody in Cuba for 13 months, is to go on trial there within weeks, American officials said today, but charges that could have brought the death penalty have been dropped. Instead, the charges will be limited to economic crimes, the officials said. If convicted, Mr. Vesco could face a 20-year sentence. Cuban prosecutors have decided not to file charges of espionage and sabotage, either of which could have meant a death sentence, the American officials said.

ENDPAPER; Yankee, Come Home

Early today, in keeping with his "everybody deserves another chance" policy, George Steinbrenner announced that in addition to signing Darryl Strawberry for the remainder of the '95 baseball season, he had also hired Robert Vesco as a third base coach. Vesco, the fugitive millionaire, had been under arrest in Havana. Fidel Castro was adamant about refusing to extradite Vesco, who is wanted in America for bank fraud, securities fraud and just regular fraud. However, when the Yankee chieftain gave him a call, the Communist dictator was more than ready to listen. "I've always loved baseball," said the well-known Cuban kingpin, "so when Steinbrenner called my office, I thought he just wanted to talk ball. But then the conversation got around to Vesco. Steinbrenner told me about his 'everybody deserves another chance' policy, and I figured, why not?"

BY Frank Gannon

U.S. Says Cuba Refuses to Free Nixon Nephew

The State Department said today that Cuba was holding the passport of Donald Nixon Jr., nephew of the late President Richard M. Nixon, and was preventing him from returning to the United States. Last Friday, Mr. Nixon's wife, Helene Nixon, asked the State Department and several members of Congress to help her husband, asserting that he was being detained by Cuban officials.

By Steven Greenhouse

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The Vesco Myth

Cuba's refusal to extradite Robert Vesco has led Federal officials to speculate that he might have information that would embarrass the Castro regime. It is more likely that the only thing embarrassing Fidel Castro is the presence of Mr. Vesco on his island. It is also probable that the Cubans refused to return the fugitive only because the Clinton Administration wouldn't meet their asking price. The myth of Robert Vesco as a brilliant if crooked financier, courted by Caribbean governments and sitting on a fortune of embezzled money, is largely the creation of Mr. Vesco himself, with a little help from overzealous United States prosecutors.

By Arthur Herzog

Cuba Tells U.S. It Will Not Extradite Fugitive Financier

The Cuban Government told American diplomats today that it does not plan to extradite Robert L. Vesco to the United States even though Cuba hinted after arresting him in Havana two weeks ago that it would hand him over, Administration officials said today. State Department officials said they were disappointed by the decision, which came after the Clinton Administration told Cuban officials that it wanted Mr. Vesco returned so that he could be tried on embezzlement and narcotics charges.

Bring Mr. Vesco Home

With millions of dollars supposedly salted away from financial swindles and drug deals, Robert Vesco has eluded American law enforcement for 24 years, living in Costa Rica, the Bahamas and most recently Cuba. Now his luck may have soured. The Cuban authorities have tossed Mr. Vesco in jail and seem ready to bargain with Washington for his return to the United States to stand trial on a variety of charges. The Clinton Administration should take advantage of the chance to gain custody of Mr. Vesco. If the chill between Havana and Washington is reduced in the process, all the better. Mr. Vesco fled the United States in 1971 with more than $200 million the Government says he looted from mutual funds. In return for shelter from the Justice Department, he provided a range of services to the foreign leaders who gave him sanctuary. He lived well in his various hideaways, maintaining luxurious homes and yachts.

Vesco, a Dealmaker to Dictators, Thrived in Cuba, Diplomats Say

One day in the fall of 1984, the reigning lord of Colombian cocaine, Carlos Lehder Rivas, sent an emissary to Cuba for an audience with Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive swindler wanted in the United States for stealing more than $200 million. Under the patronage of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, Mr. Vesco had set himself up in splendid exile in a low-slung beachfront villa with two private jets, half a dozen cars, two yachts and a speedboat. Average Cubans scraped by on black beans and rice; Mr. Vesco's guests dined on lobster and champagne.

World News Briefs; U.S. Asks Cuba To Return Financier

The Administration said today that it had asked Cuba to return Robert L. Vesco, the indicted financier who fled fraud charges in the United States two decades ago, but it insisted it would not provide Havana with anything in exchange. Cuba informed the United States last Friday that it had arrested Mr. Vesco, 59, on charges of taking actions offensive to the interests of the Cuban people, and asked for information about his crimes here.

Robert Vesco, Fugitive Financier, Is Arrested in Cuba, the U.S. Says

The Cuban Government has arrested Robert L. Vesco, who fled the United States in 1973 to avoid swindling charges, and has approached Washington about returning him here, Clinton Administration officials said today. The United States has sought the financier's extradition for years on an indictment charging him with swindling mutual fund investors of $224 million.

Fugitive Vesco Indicted In Drug Conspiracy

LEAD: The fugitive financier Robert Vesco today was added as a defendant in a narcotics conspiracy indictment, accused of persuading the Cuban Government to allow planes with cocaine to fly over Cuba on the way to the Bahamas.

Fugitive Financier Is Called Co-Conspirator in Drug Trial

LEAD: Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive American financier, was identified today as a co-conspirator in the trial of Carlos Lehder Rivas, the reputed leader of a Colombian cocaine-smuggling network.

CASTRO SAYS VESCO IS LIVING IN CUBA

President Fidel Castro acknowledged today for the first time that the fugitive American financier Robert L. Vesco had been living in Havana and receiving medical treatment. But in an angry response at a news conference this afternoon he denied the financier was being held under house arrest in Havana. Mr. Castro charged that reports that Mr. Vesco was in Cuban custody were an attempt by United States intelligence services to divert attention from a five-day conference on the Latin American debt crisis that ended here early this morning. In response to another question, Mr. Castro said he had to be ''discreet'' about announcing travel outside his country because ''the C.I.A. is hunting me everywhere.''

By Joseph B. Treaster

PANEL HEARS DETAILS LINKING MANAGUA AND DRUGS

A Senate subcommittee heard detailed evidence today showing purported links between the Nicaraguan Government and international narcotics trafficking. A former drug trafficker, James A. Herring Jr., who has acted as a Federal informant, testified that he worked with Cuban Government officials and with the American fugitive Robert Vesco to help the Nicaraguan Government build a cocaine-processing laboratory near Managua. Mr. Herring said that he had worked with members of the Nicaraguan military and that Nicaragua's Interior Minister, Tomas Borge, had offered his personal thanks for helping with what Mr. Borge called ''our project,'' whose purpose was to earn foreign currency for Nicaragua's troubled economy.

By Joel Brinkley

MAN WHO HELPED LURE EX-AGENT TO TRIAL IS SHOT

Ernest Keiser, who helped lure Edwin P. Wilson, a former agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, from Libya to face trial and jail in the United States, was shot and wounded outside a suburban restaurant late Sunday. Mr. Keiser, 65 years old, suffered a superficial wound in the right side. The assailant fled with Mr. Keiser's briefcase, which Mr. Keiser said contained confidential documents concerning Robert L. Vesco, a fugitive wanted in connection with a $224 million fraud case.

U.S. INVESTIGATING DRUG CHARGES INVOLVING VESCO AND SANDINISTAS

The United States Customs Service is investigating charges that the fugitive American financier Robert L. Vesco, working with the Nicaraguan Government, has financed cocaine smuggling to the United States and Europe, a Customs Service spokesman said today. The allegations are based on information obtained from a reliable informant who was directly involved in the transaction, according to a senior law enforcement official. The Customs Service spokesman, Dennis Murphy, said: ''We have an active investigation of Vesco's involvement. The cases we're looking at predominantly involve Europe, but that doesn't rule out smuggling to the United States.''

VESCO REPORTED IN CUBA, AS TANGIBLE AS A GHOST

Diplomats here say that Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive American financier, has been living a reclusive life in Cuba for more than a year, dividing his time among modest houses at three beach resorts and aboard a 50-foot ocean-going yacht. But the diplomats discount reports that Mr. Vesco has been welcomed to Cuba by the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, because he has helped in drug smuggling or ''money laundering'' operations. They also discount reports that he is here because he has pirated machinery and technology to Cuba. Instead, the diplomats say, they believe Mr. Vesco is being sheltered here simply because he is spending a lot of money, which Cuba especially needs because of poor world prices for sugar, its main export, and because his presence might be regarded as an embarrassment to the United States. One diplomat estimated that Mr. Vesco was spending $50,000 a month to maintain his houses and vehicles here and to care for his wife and two young daughters, who have been seen with him.

VESCO IS LINKED TO CUBA SMUGGLING PLOT

Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier, is living in Cuba and was the instigator of a plot to smuggle United States goods into Cuba, according to a Federal prosecutor. An American economic blockade prohibits United States goods and technology from being shipped to Cuba. The prosecutor, Jack Wolfe, an assistant United States Attorney in Brownsville, Tex., said in a telephone interview today that he had told a Federal judge last week about Mr. Vesco's role in the smuggling plot. The judge, Filemon Vela, was presiding over a trial in which Federal prosecutors asserted that there was a conspiracy to ship $729,000 worth of sugar- processing machinery to Cuba. Mr. Wolfe's comments were not allowed to be presented before the jury hearing the case.

By Jeff Gerth

U.S. TAX AND DRUG INDICTMENTS TRAIL FIGURES IN BAHAMIAN TRUST ; COMPANY

Behind the scenes in at least four Federal grand jury investigations into suspected money laundering and narcotics trafficking by Americans has been a Bahamian bank in which Robert L. Vesco, the financier who is now a fugitive, had financial interests. The bank is the Columbus Trust Company Ltd., organized in 1969 and closed this spring after Bahamian officials voided its license without explaining. So far the investigations have produced the following results: - In 1980 Anthony Bowe, a former bank official, reportedly now a fugitive, was indicted on drug charges in Pittsburgh. - In 1981 Lance Eisenberg, a lawyer who represented the bank, was indicted by a Houston grand jury in a tax evasion case. - Early this year, Mr. Eisenberg was indicted on tax charges by a grand jury in Charleston, W. Va.

By Reginald Stuart

Vesco Inquiry Is Requested

Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling called today for a high-level panel to investigate a report that Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier, was trafficking in drugs with the help of Bahamian politicians. Mr. Pindling called the report by NBC News ''unfounded and baseless'' and asked President Reagan to initiate a Federal inquiry to determine the source of the NBC News account.

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Facts to Consider

For two years in a row, the organization suffered a loss (in 2023 – 377 million RUB).

There is an enforcement proceeding in the bailiff database

Significant drop in the revenue for the year (by 57.5%).

Significant reduction in the assets for the year – by 37.7%.

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The organization has an auditor's opinion.

The organization is the founder (co-founder) of a mass media

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Complete Profile

• 1. General Information
• 2. Registration in the Russian Federation
• 3. Company's Activities
• 4. Legal Address
• 5. Branches and representative offices
• 6. Owners, Founders of the Entity
• 7. OOO "ROBERT BOSH" CEO
• 8. Entities Founded by Company
• 9. Company Finance
• 10. Timeline of key events
• 11. Latest Changes in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE)

General Information

Full name of the organization: OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOI OTVETSTVENNOSTIU "ROBERT BOSH"

TIN: 7706092944 (region of TIN receipt – Moscow)

KPP: 504701001

PSRN: 1027739121167

Location: 141402, Moscow Oblast, Khimki, sh. Vashutinskoe, vld. 24

Line of business: Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories (OKVED code 45.31)

Organization status: Commercial, active

Form of incorporation: Limited liability companies (code 12300 according to OKOPF)

Registration in the Russian Federation

The tax authority where the legal entity is registered: Mezhraionnaia inspektsiia Federalnoi nalogovoi sluzhby №13 po Moskovskoi oblasti (inspection code – 5047).

Registration with the Pension Fund: registration number 060050034903 dated 18 August 2015.

Registration with the Social Insurance Fund: registration number 773000002150431 dated 1 August 2015.

Company's Activities

The main activity of the organization is Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories (OKVED code 45.31).

Before 05/28/2019, the main activity of the organization was listed as Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (OKVED code 82.99).

Additionally, the organization listed the following activities:

The organization is included in the Roskomnadzor registry of registered mass media as a media founder (co-founder)

The organization is included in the Roskomnadzor registry as a personal data processing operator .

Legal Address

OOO "ROBERT BOSH" is registered at 141402, Moscow Oblast, Khimki, sh. Vashutinskoe, vld. 24. ( show on a map )

The following organizations are also registered at this address:

• OOO "BOSH REKSROT"

Branches and representative offices

• Republic Of Tatarstan, Kazan, ul. Peterburgskaia, 50
• Saint Petersburg, ul. Marshala Govorova, 49 k. liter a
• Saratov Oblast, Engels, ul. Telegrafnaia, 2
• OOO"NATA PRO"
• ORGANIZATSIIA MILOSERDIE (liquidated 12/12/2017)
• MALOE PREDPRIIATIE 'DUBRAVA' (liquidated 08/22/2017)
• ZAO "METALLOSNAB" (liquidated 08/22/2017)
• MALOE PREDPRIIATIE "GARANT" (liquidated 08/23/2017)
• Kaluga Oblast, Kaluga, ul. Fridrikha Engelsa, 22
• Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhnii Novgorod, per. Motalnyi, 8
• Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhnii Novgorod, ul. Kovalikhinskaia, 8, et. 6 pomeshch. 613
• Novosibirsk Oblast, Novosibirsk, ul. Petukhova, 69

Owners, Founders of the Entity

The founders of OOO "ROBERT BOSH" are

OOO "ROBERT BOSH" CEO

The head of the organization (a person who has the right to act on behalf of a legal entity without a power of attorney) since 15 December 2022 is general manager Krivosheev Andrei Moiseevich (TIN: 781425325857).

• (general manager from 01/27/2021 until 12/15/2022 * )
• (general manager from 02/08/2016 until 01/27/2021 * )

Entities Founded by Company

Currently OOO "ROBERT BOSH" is listed as a founder in the following organizations:

• OOO "STROITELSTVO I INVESTITSII" (Moscow Oblast, Khimki; 100%; 1.5 billion RUB)
• OOO "BOSH TERMOTEKHNIKA" (Moscow; 1%; 105 thousand RUB)

Previously the organization was listed as a founder in:

• TSZH "NA NEKRASOVA" (Saratov Oblast, Saratov) - until 10/21/2021
• LLC "NAMI-IC" (Samara Oblast, r-n Volzhskii, s. Preobrazhenka; 90%; 1.6 billion RUB) - until 06/21/2023

Company Finance

The Authorized capital of OOO "ROBERT BOSH" is 20 million RUB. This is significantly higher than the minimum authorized capital established by law for LTD (10 thousand RUB).

The net assets of OOO "ROBERT BOSH" as of 12/31/2023 totaled 7.3 billion RUB.

The organization is not subject to special taxation regimes (operates under a common regime).

The organization had no tax arrears as of 05/10/2024.

Enforcement proceedings

In relation to a legal entity, the database of the Federal Bailiff Service contains the following enforcement proceedings as of 09/20/2024:

Timeline of key events

• Information about the founder was entered – ROBERT BOSH GMBKH (Federal Republic of Germany).
• Information about the founder was entered – ROBERT BOSH AG (Republic of Austria).

Latest Changes in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE)

• 07/25/2023 . Submission of information about the registration of a legal entity with the tax authority at the location of the branch/representative office.
• 12/15/2022 . Change of information about a legal entity contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
• 12/08/2022 . Change of information about a legal entity contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
• 11/27/2022 . Submission of information about the registration of an individual at the place of residence.
• 12/15/2021 . Submission of information about the registration of a legal entity with the tax authority at the location of the branch/representative office.
• 11/02/2021 . State registration of changes made to the constituent documents of a legal entity related to changes in information about a legal entity contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, based on an application.
• 09/22/2021 . Submission of information about the registration of a legal entity with the tax authority at the location of the branch/representative office.
• 09/16/2021 . Submission of information about the registration of a legal entity with the tax authority at the location of the branch/representative office.
• 04/23/2021 . Change of information about a legal entity contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
• 01/27/2021 . Change of information about a legal entity contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

* The date of change in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities is shown (may be different from the actual date).

The data presented on this page have been obtained from official sources: the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), the State Information Resource for Financial Statements, the website of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), the Ministry of Finance and the Federal State Statistics Service.

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