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category: Country
summary: Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state that Patrick Moriarty paid Bo Gritz
  to visit as part of a cover business involving CIA-connected oil interests between
  China and Indonesia.
tags:
- Country
- Singapore
- SoutheastAsia
- BoGritz
---

[Singapore](/places/singapore/) is a city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in connection with [Patrick Moriarty](/people/patrick-moriarty/) and [Bo Gritz](/people/bo-gritz/), as Moriarty paid Gritz to make business trips to [China](/places/china/), [Singapore](/places/singapore/), and other parts of Asia. Gritz claimed his July 1989 trip to Asia was to negotiate an oil interest he and Moriarty had set up between the People's Republic of China and Indonesia.[^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 [Singapore](/places/singapore/), the [Philippines](/places/philippines/), and [Taiwan](/places/taiwan/) over a two-year period after the Los Angeles [FBI](/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation/) dropped its interest in Nichols.[^1]

[Michael Riconosciuto](/people/michael-riconosciuto/) claimed that [Robert Booth Nichols](/people/robert-booth-nichols/) wanted to receive the set-up of their end offshore in [Singapore](/places/singapore/), including $20 million in cash, and to use certain technology overseas, namely in [Australia](/places/australia/).[^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.