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Thai court charges banking scandal suspect Saxena

BANGKOK (AP) — A former adviser to a Thai bank whose failure helped spark the 1997 Asian financial meltdown was formally charged Monday in connection with embezzling almost $50 million.

The Thai attorney-general's office announced it had charged Rakesh Saxena with violating four securities law statutes by facilitating a bad 1.66 billion baht loan in 1995.

Saxena, 57, was sent back to...

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