Thread by @intel_jakal

So there's quite a bit of speculation around how #Chalopin of #deltec was able to acquire a tiny rural bank. Chalopin jnr interview by @protos described it as an "extremely lucky find" but they didn't find it by driving through the backroads of the rural America

there was no need to wrestle control from local shareholders....or negotiating price over a couple Maryland rum's in jam jars. The bank had long gone offshore

Back in 1994, Farmingtngton Bancorp was acquired by Farmington Finance Corp Tortola, British Virgin Islands. At that time it had a whopping $1.8m in deposits

the BVIco's acquisition was approved by Chairman Greenspan, Vice ChairmanBlinder, and Governors Kelley and Yellen.
Anyone recognise any of those names?

#deltic #ftx #moonstone

adding this to the thread. Will compile some background on Chan and his investments as well as publish a timeline of events (as I've found)...I'm sure more connections will drop out as I go through the process.

By Chan I mean race horse owner Chan Wing Kan

and if you are Australian and you grew up in the 80s/90s you would know of one of Archie Chan's companies #jeanswest which was a popular retail chain that brought horrible fashion to #australia including #hypercolor and #acidwash

I'm thinking if you squint hard enough...you can read it as Arch[ie] C[h]a[n] - possibly an OCR hiccup.

ok so have already been accused of being a dunce for suggesting ARCJOE CJAM is actually Archie Chan.
Well I wouldn't have considered it unless I had already seen this.....

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