30 January 1995 One of the biggest newsmaking stories of 1994 was the Caritas pyramid scheme, which robbed some 4 million Romanian citizens of an estimated $ 1 billion. Caritas opened in the Transylvanian town of Brasov in April 1992 and stopped paying investors early last year, although the first signs of difficulties appeared as early as October 1993. Promising […]
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