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From tfa: "Reis then proceeded to launder the bills into gold-backed foreign currencies and smaller denominations of Portuguese currency." So sounds like he d
by andrepd 7y ago
From tfa:
"Reis then proceeded to launder the bills into gold-backed foreign currencies and smaller denominations of Portuguese currency."
So sounds like he did launder the money successfully, but he stuck around for the final part of his plot: gain a controlling share in Banco de Portugal to retroactively make his fiction become true.
- segmondy 7y agoI think your parent was talking about the fact that he knew he was going to be arrested and instead of fleeing like Hennies decided to fight it.
- corford 7y agoInterestingly Reis may have made the right choice: Hennies ended up dying in poverty before Reis even finished his prison term. The only one that seems to have come out relatively unscathed was Marang, everyone else finished badly (including the printer in London).