José 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 Arrest in the Rua do Ouro…hile postponing all substantive determination. The personal consequences for Reis’s associates unfolded in a pattern of graduated exposure. José Bandeira, the bank’s vice-president and Reis’s principal collaborator, had departed Lisbon on 5 December for Porto, where he maintained business int…
- The Flight from Estoril…same instrument named his associates: Karel Marang, the Dutch trader whose commercial connections had helped place the fraudulent currency; José Bandeira, the former diplomat who had carried the forged authorization to London; and several others whose roles in the Banco Angola e Metrópole’s o…
- Waterlow’s Defence Takes Shape…s but professionally justified. The second pillar required demonstrating that forged documents presented by dos Reis and his brother-in-law José Bandeira carried sufficient verisimilitude to deceive reasonable men exercising due diligence. The contract purportedly authorized by the Bank of Po…