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Published on: 9/23/2009
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Hassan Nemazee, a top fundraiser for US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been indicted by a grand jury for stealing $292 million (R2.1 billion) from Citigroup, HSBC Holdings and Bank of America.
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Nemazee was arrested last month after prosecutors said he stole $75m from Citigroup.
The indictment adds Bank of America and HSBC to the case, expands the duration of the alleged fraud, and almost quadruples the amount that Nemazee is accused of stealing.
From 1998 to this year, he "obtained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans from Citibank, HSBC and Bank of America", US attorney Preet Bharara said on Monday, announcing the indictment.
Bharara added: "Documents and signatures that Nemazee used to obtain these loans, including documents he submitted to purportedly show that he had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateral, were fake."
Nemazee, the chairman of Nemazee Capital, is under house arrest in his $20m Manhattan apartment on a $25m bond.
He has not entered a formal response to the criminal charges.
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Nemazee is accused of providing banks with fake account statements and forging signatures on documents.