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English–Papiamento dictionary to a History of Aruba to psychological historical romance and fiction, to Aruban republications and Papiamento translations of classics of English and
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Mansurs by name and portrays them as criminals who were associated with criminal organizations involved in drugs trafficking, gun trafficking and laundering money obtained from criminal activities. Despite the fact that the report was classified as top secret, it was leaked to
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Venezuelan intelligence agency, the DISIP, "in Venezuela the Mansurs are implicated in money laundering with Lopesierra. Every month Lopesierra 're-invested' 20 million dollars 'with the help of a well-known entrepreneur called Mansur'." Lopesierra was arrested for drug
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Mansurs were involved in organized crime. The report by the Dutch Internal Security Service describes security in Aruba, saying that foreign organizations fighting crime in the region are almost unanimous in their view of the Aruban business community as providing services for
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in 1996 publicly identified Aruba "as a major drug-transit country" and noted that "a substantial portion of the free-zone's businesses in Aruba are owned and operated by members of the Mansur family, who have been indicted in the United States on charges of conspiracy to launder trafficking
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Natalee Holloway on Aruba in 2005. Mansur formed his own "investigative team" and his newspaper repeatedly published new leads. According to some observers, Mansur jumped on the bandwagon as part of his own feud with the Aruban government.
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International broke its contract with the Mansurs at the end of 1998 "for business reasons." A source close to the family said the two sides agreed to a $ 422 million settlement and that the Mansurs continue to work with Philip Morris' non-tobacco product lines.
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through the wife of a jailed Cali cartel boss during the 1994 election campaign. Mr. Samper denied it. The
Mansurs subsequently were awarded a monopoly for Colombian gambling, which was canceled in 1997 by a government watchdog agency that smelled impropriety.
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Caribbean basin for many years (the cigarette factories were sold to Philip Morris in 2007). The Mansurs sponsored the Marlboro Red Tigers baseball team as well as the
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the press and its contents became public. The suit was dismissed on procedural grounds for failure to exhaust Mansur's civil remedies in the
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