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Banco Espirito Santo Patriarch & Former CEO Arrested in Portugal

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Mark Melin
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The problems at Banco Espirito Santo SA (ELI:BES) may be deeper than originally thought with the detention of Ricardo Espirto Santo Salgado, the bank’s patriarch and former CEO, by authorities in Portugal Thursday.

Banco Espirito Santo Patriarch & Former CEO Arrested in Portugal

Banco Espirito Santo was being held for money-laundering and tax evasion probe

Salgado was being held for questioning as part of a three-year money-laundering and tax evasion probe conducted in conjunction with a wider investigation of the relationship between Swiss wealth managers and Portuguese customers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Salgado exited Banco Espirito Santo SA (ELI:BES) earlier this month...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.