Remember: 2004 assassination of Yulia Timoshenko’s bagman Oleksijs Zharovs in Riga. Blown up in his Mercedes SUV on Brivibas iela in front of Hotel Latvia. Parex Bank was trying to convince him to buy Parex shares. He declined. Then he got blown up! Latvian law says that when a bank’s deposit customer gets blown up, the bank can keep his money. In all other countries, the deposit would go to the government.
