When a body was found in a roadside ditch outside Mexico City, it seemed like just another murder – one of tens of thousands of violent killings in that country each year. But the victim was in fact the hard-working mother of two and the branch manager for Canadian-owned Scotiabank. The death of Maru Oropesa revealed the risks that Canadian banks and their employees face in one of the most corrupt countries in the world. From one murder in Mexico, the fifth estate’s Bob McKeown follows the money trail to secret accounts in Switzerland, and into the underworld of Mexican money laundering.
The official fraud investigations would eventually uncover more than 14 million dollars missing from Scotiabank accounts in Mexico and more than 16 employees involved at almost all levels of the bank – including a cashier, a manager, and even a vice-president. But the murder of the branch manager remained unsolved. Knowingly or not, did the bank’s actions help or hinder her murder investigation? McKeown speaks to her family and the Mexican former chief prosecutor in the case to untangle the web of criminal activity that led to her death.
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