On 28 February 1995, Mexican police officers arrested Salinas on suspicion of murder, causing a flurry of phone calls between bankers in London, Switzerland and New York, although the bankers’ concerns were not what you might have imagined. ‘The private bank’s initial reaction to the arrest was not to assist law enforcement, but to determine whether the Salinas accounts should be moved to Switzerland to make discovery of the assets and bank records more difficult,’ a later Senate investigation concluded, based on the bank’s automatic tape recordings of the conversations.
