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People (2)

  • Robert Mazur United States Customs special agent who, as 'Robert Musella,' was the principal undercover operative of Operation C-Chase, the 1986-88 sting that led to BCCI's 1990 Tampa conviction.
  • Walter Kreitlow Walter Kreitlow was the U.S. Customs Special Agent in Tallahassee who filed the first Customs Service report on the Finders investigation on February 12, 1987, documenting his agency's entry into the case following the February 4 child welfare arrests.

Events (2)

  • Hashemi Sting The Hashemi Sting was a 1986 U.S. Customs undercover operation against arms sales to Iran, prosecuted by Rudolph Giuliani's Southern District of New York office; its informant Cyrus Hashemi died in London that year.
  • Operation C-Chase United States Customs undercover money laundering operation of 1986 to 1988, run by agent Robert Mazur as 'Robert Musella,' that ended in the arrest of BCCI officers and the bank's 1990 Tampa conviction.

Places (1)

  • Tampa, Florida Gulf coast city in Florida where the 1988 Operation C-Chase indictment of BCCI was brought, and whose federal prosecutors the Senate found had missed the bank's wider crimes.