And nearly all the $4 billion that came into the country last year was direct foreign investment into banks, factories or utilities controlled by foreign companies.

The international bank controlled by the Stanford group is now in receivership pending the outcome of an investigation.

"But you make a great deal of money from banks controlled by the Holy See, is that not so?"

The central bank, controlled by old-line bureaucrats, is still pumping out inflationary rubles to keep hopelessly inefficient enterprises in business.

A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.

In fact, the money found its way into a bank controlled by Mr. Cojuangco, who used it to take over San Miguel.

Similarly, he expressed concerns about the government's responsibilities, if a bank controlled by a corporation should encounter financial difficulties.

Indonesians are particularly angry because Mr. Suharto has not been as willing to close insolvent banks controlled by his family and business partners.

Reform Egypt's banks, owned and controlled by Pharaoh through a creaking bureaucracy that wouldn't do, just would not do!

It is unconscionable that such poor countries pay billions to banks controlled by the wealthiest countries when the money is needed to save lives.