Description:Chapters: Alves Dos Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca, Carlos Brito, Dona Branca. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Artur Virgilio Alves Reis (b. in Lisbon, September 3, 1898 - July 1955) was a Portuguese criminal who perpetrated one of the largest frauds in history, against Banco de Portugal in 1925, often called the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis. Alves dos Reis was a child of a humble family; his father was a financially troubled undertaker who ended up being declared insolvent. Reis wanted to study engineering. He started his degree but quit in the first year to marry Maria Luisa Jacobetty de Azevedo. In 1916 he decided to emigrate to Angola which, at the time, was a Portuguese colony, to try to make a fortune and escape the humiliations from his wife's family, due to their differences in social status. Reis forged himself a diploma of engineering, supposedly from Oxford University, although in reality it was from a school which didn't exist: the "Polytechnic School of Engineering." According to the diploma, he had studied engineering sciences, geology, geometry, physics, metallurgy, pure mathematics, paleography, electric and mechanical engineering, applied mechanics and physics. He started as a public employee in the public sewers constructions and repairs. With an uncovered cheque, he bought the major part of the stocks of the Transafrican Railways of Angola, in Mocamedes. He became rich and gained credit. Reis returned to Lisbon in 1922. Back in Portugal he acquired a US car dealership and tried to take over the ailing company "Ambaca." He forged checks for over US $100,000, enough money to buy Ambaca, and then used its money reserves to cover the checks. He used the remaining money ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=87502We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Portuguese Prisoners and Detainees: Alves DOS Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca. To get started finding Portuguese Prisoners and Detainees: Alves DOS Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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28
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2010
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1157445101
Portuguese Prisoners and Detainees: Alves DOS Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca
Description: Chapters: Alves Dos Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca, Carlos Brito, Dona Branca. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Artur Virgilio Alves Reis (b. in Lisbon, September 3, 1898 - July 1955) was a Portuguese criminal who perpetrated one of the largest frauds in history, against Banco de Portugal in 1925, often called the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis. Alves dos Reis was a child of a humble family; his father was a financially troubled undertaker who ended up being declared insolvent. Reis wanted to study engineering. He started his degree but quit in the first year to marry Maria Luisa Jacobetty de Azevedo. In 1916 he decided to emigrate to Angola which, at the time, was a Portuguese colony, to try to make a fortune and escape the humiliations from his wife's family, due to their differences in social status. Reis forged himself a diploma of engineering, supposedly from Oxford University, although in reality it was from a school which didn't exist: the "Polytechnic School of Engineering." According to the diploma, he had studied engineering sciences, geology, geometry, physics, metallurgy, pure mathematics, paleography, electric and mechanical engineering, applied mechanics and physics. He started as a public employee in the public sewers constructions and repairs. With an uncovered cheque, he bought the major part of the stocks of the Transafrican Railways of Angola, in Mocamedes. He became rich and gained credit. Reis returned to Lisbon in 1922. Back in Portugal he acquired a US car dealership and tried to take over the ailing company "Ambaca." He forged checks for over US $100,000, enough money to buy Ambaca, and then used its money reserves to cover the checks. He used the remaining money ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=87502We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Portuguese Prisoners and Detainees: Alves DOS Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca. To get started finding Portuguese Prisoners and Detainees: Alves DOS Reis, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Gastao de Freitas Ferraz, Francisco Miguel Duarte, Julio Fogaca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.