The Economist (US), January 18th, 1997
THE Swiss bank account and the African dictator go together like sex and the rock stallion. But not often does the world get to see the numbers-of the account and in it. On August 23rd 1995, Philippe Bidawid, of the Geneva branch of Credit Lyonnais, a giant French bank, wrote to Captain Ebou Jallow, one of a group of young soldiers who had recently seized power in the tiny West African state of the Gambia. He said he would travel to the Gambian capital, Banjul, the following Friday, to bring "account-opening documentation for the concerned person" and hoped to complete the formalities the sam...
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