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category: Country
summary: The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelago nation whose Deputy Chief
  of Staff for Intelligence Ignacio Paz used Robert Booth Nichols to move large government
  funds into Swiss bank accounts.
tags:
- Country
- Philippines
- Intelligence
- SoutheastAsia
- RobertBoothNichols
---

The [Philippines](/places/philippines/) is an archipelago nation in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in the context of [Ignacio Paz](/people/ignacio-paz/), the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government, who was assisted by [Robert Booth Nichols](/people/robert-booth-nichols/) in removing large sums of money from the [Philippines](/places/philippines/) by investing with Nichols, who placed the money in Swiss bank accounts.[^1]

[Art Suchesk](/people/art-suchesk/), a friend of [Allan Boyak](/people/allan-boyak/) and a [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) proprietary company runner, repeatedly encountered [Robert Booth Nichols](/people/robert-booth-nichols/) in the [Philippines](/places/philippines/), among other locations, after the Los Angeles [FBI](/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation/) dropped its interest in Nichols.[^1]

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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.