On April 27, 2012, Dr. Antonio Maria Costa , former head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Gave an interview to EIR's Andrew Spannaus. Dr. Costa HAD Warned Lehman Brothers Shortly after the bankruptcy in September 2008 That, when to interbank lending and credit markets froze DURING That panic, It was only the flow of drug money That Kept the international banking system from complete meltdown at. That Dr. Costa Repeated assessment in more recent historical EIR interview.
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In an extensive interview published in the April 27 edition of EIR Online (English), Dr. Antonio Maria Costa, former director general of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2002 to 2010) provides an inside look at the way the drug money has contaminated the global banking system. During his long career, Dr. Costa has had the opportunity to design rules to help prevent this crime, but has seen has exploded laundering drug money to the extent that has shattered global banking regulatory system governments.
Dr. Costa is famous worldwide in January 2009, only months after the collapse of transatlantic banking system - when he said in an interview with the Austrian weekly Profil, a massive cash flow of global trade in narcotics were carried to the banking system to bail out the banks after the market closed interbank money.












