Karel Marang
Books
- Printed by the Bank Itself Alves dos Reis, Waterlow & Sons, and the Banknote Fraud That Shook Portugal · Liszt Think
In 1925, a Lisbon clerk with a forged Oxford diploma orchestrated the largest banknote fraud in history.
- The Authorisation from Threadneedle Street…repared for this moment through study of Waterlow’s existing relationships. He knew, from published sources and from the conversations with Karel Marang that had preceded his own approach, that the firm had recently lost a significant contract with the government of Romania. German and Dutch…
- With the Notes Being Printed…one carrying the full faith and credit of the Bank of Portugal, each one entirely unauthorized. Reis needed a bank. He found his partner in Karel Marang, the Dutch financier who had already approached Joh. Enschedé with the initial printing inquiry and who now carried a letter of introductio…
- The Deliberate and Paradoxical Design…er colonial bank, one of several then serving the metropole’s African interests. Its stated capital of fifty million escudos, subscribed by Karel Marang’s Angolan interests, placed it among Lisbon’s more substantial financial houses without approaching the scale of established giants. The am…