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During the credit freeze, banks stopped trusting one another enough to lend. U.N. drugs chief Antonio Maria Costa said criminal proceeds became a source of liquidity for some institutions. Traffickers needed to disguise their money; banks needed money they could use. The crisis brought those two needs uncomfortably close together.
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