Merchants of Menace

Merchants of Menace

True Crime Podcast reinvestigating the notorious Nugan Hand Bank and its alleged activities, including gun-running and money laundering for the drug traffickers and the CIA. In the process, the author uncovers the new identity and whereabouts of one of the world's most elusive corporate fugitives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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January 4, 2017 28 mins

Following Nugan's death, Michael Hand disappears from Sydney. His lawyer fears he has been murdered. But Nugan Hand bank investigators discover he has flown out on a false passport in the company of a former CIA operative, codenamed 'Charlie'.

Six months later, the story takes a stunning turn when Frank Nugan is allegedly seen 'alive' in the United States. Is it Nugan or someone else in his grave? The Attorney General orders an...

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Facing the possibility of going to prison for fraud, Frank Nugan offers big dollars to anyone who can compromise the Attorney General. Coincidentally or not, Mike Hand's army buddy and the bank's can-do man in Hong Kong, Doug Sapper, is approached to do a hit job in Sydney.

Meanwhile, Hand is pushing deeper into the clandestine world, moving big money for the Shah of Iran and negotiating weapons sales. Fearful that the authorities a...

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January 4, 2017 24 mins

The Nugan Hand bank opens branches across South East Asia and sets about employing former high-ranking US military and CIA officers to man them. Michael Hand also builds relationships with the Hong Kong Triads, Golden Triangle heroin traffickers and the CIA.

Michael Hand also builds relationships with the Hong Kong Triads and Golden Triangle heroin traffickers. He then advises his executives that the Nugan Hand bank has become a pay...

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January 4, 2017 27 mins

When Australian merchant banker, Frank Nugan, is found dead in mysterious circumstances on a country road, corporate investigators visit the bank and discover staff shredding the accounts.

The Nugan Hand Bank's international branches soon collapse like a house of cards and Nugan's business partner, American war hero, Michael Hand, vanishes.

The discovery of evidence linking the Nugan Hand Bank to drug traffickers and gun-ru...

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