Last month, millions of dollars linked to Sani Abacha, the late Nigerian dictator, were traced to its banks.
The crackdown on dissent increased this summer following allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars linked to a Malaysian state fund had dropped into Najib's personal bank accounts.
A worldwide drug trafficking ring worth millions of dollars linking Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, with Latin American cartels has been uncovered by the American authorities, the US Drug Enforcement Administration DEAA) has said.
United States investigators have launched probes into corruption allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars linked to a Malaysian state fund had dropped into prime minister Najib Razak's personal bank accounts.
When the investigators began looking into Riggs's books, they discovered several accounts, containing hundreds of millions of dollars, linked to Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny African nation with enormous gas and oil reserves.
As the mechanism for apportioning congressional districts—and billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data the census has always been a political football.
But inventories for many commodities, particularly grains, are unusually low.What about the dollar link?
The dollar link was seen as a vital instrument for bringing inflation under control, and it was markedly successful in achieving that.
The results seem likely to include not just a repudiation of the peso-dollar link, but also a backlash against the proponents of that link, primarily the United States and the International Monetary Fund.
Another factor is the residual inflation left in the economy after the dollar link was introduced and which led to a real appreciation of the exchange rate between 1991-95.
