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The grandmother of all scams

by Sheila S. Coronel and Ellen Tordesillas

ON FRIDAY, April 28, 1995, George Triviño, a convicted gold smuggler with a long history of wheeling-dealing, received 31 checks totaling P300 million from the Amari Coastal Bay Resources Corp., a Thai-Filipino company that had just entered into a P1.8-billion contract with the government to buy reclaimed property off the Manila-Cavite coastal road.

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, March 18th, 1998

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