Bill,

Well, please be careful... I'd suggest making sure you never expose any information whatsoever and if you need to use an American bank account that you do a couple things:

1) Start a new account in a different bank than your personal one.
2) Have at least two accounts. #1 Receives monies and is your "public" account and #2 receives monies swept from #1 on a daily basis. That way your exposure is one day's receipts only.
3) Should you ever physically visit the country (not recommended) I'd make sure that I had no personal information on me other than what I needed.
4) I'd even go so far as to change phone numbers at home and make them all unlisted.

Paranoid? <g> Nahh.. Prudent. There's a lot of ..er.. unsavory types over there.

Best,

DD

>I appreciate the warnings, and will definitely take them under advisement. I have reason to know and trust the immediate persons I'm dealing with; they are family friends of someone I've known (who is now an American attorney - spare the attorney jokes) for 15 years.
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>It may also be the case that things are improving ... several highly respected expatriates have returned to try to assist with a return to real democracy. While this may be optimistic, these are the kind of folks who would have not lasted more than a few days alive there in years past.
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>So, anyway ...