Pictured above on the cover of Requa's book is a meeting he held in late 1991 with then Peruvian President Alberto K. Fujimori, a meeting held at the request of Fujimori in San Francisco. Immediately after this meeting tandem and joint hostilities against Requa and his company by US government agencies, allied with organized criminal elements, became apparent. Fujimori had wanted access to Requa's company files that detailed thousands of gold showings on mines and gold prospects from Alaska to Bolivia. Fujimori in particular wanted access to those geological files for use by Peruvian gold mining companies to explore and develop gold mines in Central America. Within a year and a half of this meeting, the assets of Requa's company would arbitrarily be siezed in corrupt judicial proceedings that appear to have been greatly facilitated by criminalized agents of the FBI.
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"A true story and a wild conspiracy made believable by Enron, WorldCom, and the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. It is a tale that is quite extraordinary...Requa is a terrific writer."

- Robert W.P. Cutler, MD, Professor of Neurology at Stanford University and author of The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford (Stanford University Press).

In 1991, author Stephen Requa's company, Banner International, was in control of much of the world's most valuable gold exploration data plus two major gold claim groups in Nevada, and Peruvian President Fujimori invited Requa to meet him about these. On its claims Banner had also located the probable mother lode source of one of the largest placer gold deposits in the state's history. Billions of dollars were at stake. Then one day in 1993, Requa's well funded company was fraudulently seized without notice and put into a hastily contrived and illegal "receivership" by a Utah court. Surrounding these events came a dizzying tangle of threats, smears, stock frauds, frame-ups, and murder attempts againest the author that emanated from the highest echelons of government and from the lowest street criminals, apparently working in tandem. Those who became complicit included even members of his own family and a handful of corrupt shareholders. After being forced to flee to Europe, Requa eventually not only recovered his mining claims, but found some compelling and astonishing explanations for what had happened.

"How you handle the uncomfortable truths exposed in this book is up to you. But if democracy requires eternal vigilance, my fellow citizens, please absorb this encounter."

- William F. Pepper, international human rights attorney and author of  An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

"This book is told with superlative honesty. It will frighten you, it will entertain you, and it will make you want to fight the powers that be. Prepare to have your eyes opened and take the gloves off".

- Colin Salmon, widely-acclaimed U.K. actor

"An eye-opening account of how business is actually conducted."

- John Krumboltz, co-author of Luck Is No Accident and Professsor of Psychology, Stanford University

  From the Author’s Preface:
  Naked Greed — Naked Criminality

       On April 7, 2009, former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty in a Lima courtroom of 25 hit-squad murders under his direction and of other kidnapping charges, and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. A prior conviction (several months previously) had given him six years on other corruption charges. I had been pleased with that first verdict to be sure, but for the many reasons to be clarified in this book, I quite literally jumped for joy and clapped my hands upon hearing the second verdict. Two years after privately meeting with Fujimori in San Francisco in 1991 in his hotel suite, I too had been subject to some kidnap and murder attempts, and I have always believed he was one of the linchpins behind them. This book is an effort to fill in the progression of events and offenses that appear to have emanated from that meeting, including offenses that came to directly involve individuals with whom I had ongoing immediate contacts.
 


        Those grievous offenses were not isolated, but were part of a trail of very strange and disturbing things that started to happen after I met Fujimori in his private suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco in late November of 1991. He was interested in about 200 Central American mining sites for gold and other metals about which I had extensive information (as well as information on thousands of such sites in the U.S.). In fact, he wanted some of his Peruvian mining companies to begin mining operations in Central America as soon as possible. At least that is what the late Finance Minister of Peru, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, had told me. Carlos, who lived in the San Francisco Bay and whom I knew rather well by this time (so I thought), had arranged my meeting with Fujimori to get acquainted and get things started.
        This book examines why someone in Fujimori’s or Rodriguez-Pastor’s positions in a major narco state would be so interested in gold mines that they might contemplate kidnapping and murder to gain access to the needed information for accomplishing their objectives to mine gold, and/or to prevent someone (like me) from disclosing why they might be so implacably interested in such information and the mines to which the information would lead.
 
        But there is much more to this story than just narco-state dictator/presidents and finance ministers. It has to do with the almost total criminalization of our economic system in general, about which we have had such compelling ringside seats by our television sets starting in the last half of 2008. Everything is connected. Even the Bushes (including both Presidents) are in these events — at minimum, in the wings, if not behind the center-stage curtain. One thing I have learned from all of this during the years since it began is that if the corruption and frauds are big enough, and the financial charades egregious enough, in one way or another the Bushes can be sniffed out.