- classified $10M payment to a convicted trafficker and escaped prisoner
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- classified $10M payment to a convicted trafficker and escaped prisoner
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The British government secretly wired ten million dollars to a convicted arms trafficker and fugitive who was living under British protection-money that remained classified for decades and helped keep Spain out of Hitler’s orbit; how did Juan March Ordinas, a peasant’s son and expelled schoolboy, become indispensable to governments and avoid ever being charged as a spy?
In this episode, we tell the story of Juan March Ordinas from his birth in a small Mallorcan village to his rise as a smuggler, financier, and one of the world’s richest men, and we trace the events that led Winston Churchill’s government to authorize a classified payment-what choices and bargains made that possible?
Person: Juan March Ordinas
Date of birth: October 4, 1880
Event: Classified $10,000,000 payment by British government
Conviction: 1931 convictions for financial irregularities, tobacco trafficking, and arms trafficking
Island: Cabrera expropriated after provisioning Austro-Hungarian submarines
- March bribed a Civil Guard to escape prison and fled to Gibraltar under British protection.
- In 1916 he founded Trasmediterránea, a shipping company during World War I.
- By 1961 Time magazine profiled him as the Iberian Croesus.
- At death he was assessed as the seventh-richest man in the world and owned works by Goya, Velázquez, Picasso, and Van Gogh.
- His family’s reported worth today stands above $5,000,000,000.
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