Orlando Castro Llanes

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Orlando Castro Llanes is a Cuban native who was one of Venezuela's most prominent businessmen before his financial empire of banks and insurance agencies collapsed, leaving angry depositors in its wake. Castro fled to Miami and was ultimately arrested and extradited to New York in 1996 where he was tried and convicted of bank fraud in 1997. After that he was extradited to Venezuela. In 2007, he was sentenced to a two-month sentence for libeling the director of newspaper El Nacional, Miguel Henrique Otero. According to Venezuelan laws, he was granted parole for being older than 65 years.^[1]

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• Hilton, Isabel. "Presumed Guilty". Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ) UK:(July 1994).
• Halvorssen, Thor. The Americas: The price of vigilance in Venezuela's banking community. Wall Street Journal. New York, N.Y.: March 4, 1994. pg. A9 Available online here.
• Sullivan, John. New York Jury Convicts Three Venezuelan Bankers of Defrauding Depositors. New York Times (February 20, 2007).
• Index of articles, Orlando Castro Llanes. Ashenoff and Associates, Inc. Retrieved on July 21, 2007
• The New York criminal case of Orlando Castro Llanos. Ashenoff and Associates, Inc. Retrieved on July 21, 2007.
• (Spanish) "Remembranzas de Orlando Castro" Dinero (August 1996). Available at ashenoff.com. Retrieved on July 21, 2007