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199. Mark L. Clifford, “The Black Hole,” BusinessWeek, February 4, 2002,
www.lexis-nexis.com/.
200. Ibid.
201. Shenzhen Daily, “Biggest Bank Embezzler Returned,” April 22, 2004,
www.sznews.com/szdaily/20040422/ca898144.htm.
202. Asian Pacific Post, “Banker Who Stole Millions from China Has Been
Sent Home to Jail,” April 22, 2004, www.asianpacificpost.com
/news/article/62.html.
203. Terence Tan, “Massive ‘Dirty Money’ Scam in HK,” Straits Times (Singapore),
January 25, 2004, www.nexis.com/.
204. “Tax Evasion Syndicate Spirited $50bn Out of China,” September 19,
2001, www.cainindia.org/news/19-9-1-14.htm.
205. Tan, “Massive ‘Dirty Money’ Scam in HK.”
206. Bruce Gilley, “People’s Republic of Cheats,” Far Eastern Economic Review,
June 21, 2001, 60.
207. Lin Binyan and Perry Link, “A Great Leap Backward?” review of
Zhongguo de xianjing [China’s Pitfall], by He Qinglian, New York Review
of Books, October 8, 1998, www.nybooks.com/articles/717. This
citation refers to all three quotes in the text.
208. Institute for Information and Democratization, “The Diagnostic
Assessment of Russian Corruption: The Sociological Analysis,” Novaya
Gazeta, July 29, 2002. Other studies include (1) A. Abalkin
and J. Whalley, “The Problem of Capital Flight from Russia,”
World Economy 22, no. 3 (May 1999): 421–444; (2) Maria E. de
Boyrie, Simon J. Pak, and John S. Zdanowicz, “Estimating the Magnitude
of Capital Flight Due to Abnormal Pricing in International
Trade: The Russia-USA Case, working paper from the Center for
International Business Education and Research, Florida International
University, Miami, Florida; and (3) United Nations Office for
Drug Control and Crime Prevention, “Russian Capitalism and
Money-Laundering,” 2001.
209. Interview by the author with a former Russian government official,
Moscow, Russia, not for attribution.
210. Commissioned by the author, Washington, DC, not for attribution.
211. Decree of the President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
“About Special Use of Currency Resources in 1991,” 01.11.1990 #975.