Neighbouring Liberia has, at an official level, been deeply implicated in the trade, the report concludes.
The investor, in turn, received money that flowed through the bank from companies the United States has since designated as Hezbollah fronts, and from dealers implicated in the trade in so-called conflict diamonds and minerals, the Americans and Europeans with knowledge of the matter said.
Many smaller funds, meanwhile, will have fewer options and some once-popular companies implicated in the trading investigations, like Putnam Investments and the Janus Capital Group, may have a hard time recovering lost ground.
It will be interesting to see if any others are implicated in the trading, or whether Mr. Adoboli will go down as yet another example of the rogue trader causing billions of dollars of losses with apparent ease.
On 14 March a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) conference issued a warning to the eight countries most heavily implicated in the ivory trade; they have until July 2014 to formulate and implement plans to reduce the trade in ivory or face sanctions.
Prosecutors, counter-trafficking police and border guards are all implicated in the sex trade.
General Somsak said Myanmar officials along the border were "absolutely" implicated in the drug trade.
Millken said many Chinese nationals, working as development officials with legitimate jobs, had been implicated in the growing trade.
The new study adds considerable detail but also pulls back from accusations that the presidents of Burkina Faso and Togo were directly implicated in the illegal trade.
Mr. bin Laden has never been implicated in the 1993 trade center bombing, but some officials said that Mr. Mohammed's involvement with both Mr. Yousef and Mr. bin Laden raised more questions to explore.
Jose Manuel Diokno, a human-rights lawyer, told me, "Those who have a name or have some influence or hold some position who are implicated in the drug trade are given an investigation, they're given due process.
