António Bandeira
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 Contract from the Bank of Portugal…e. What he had was access, through the network of his colonial service, to a man whose career had provided precisely the missing expertise. António Bandeira entered the conspiracy at this juncture, his value measured not in capital but in credentials. A former Portuguese diplomat, Bandeira had s…
- The Consul’s Signature…mediate verification. He turned to the one instrument that transformed suspicious cargo into protected state business: diplomatic immunity. António Bandeira had served Portugal in diplomatic posts before his consular appointment at The Hague. He possessed the seals, the stationery, the instituti…
- A Controlling Interest…resources derived entirely from the notes printed by Waterlow & Sons and smuggled into Portugal through the diplomatic immunity secured by António Bandeira. The German rumor was itself a forgery, a fiction constructed to explain the inexplicable and to deflect inquiry from the actual source of…