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Kachkar Charged With $140 Million Fraud

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In 2010, Westernbank Puerto Rico, the country’s second-largest commercial bank, took a loss of more than $140 million on loans to a Florida businessman, 53-year-old Jack Kachkar, which contributed to its failure, according to the FDIC’s inspector general. Kachkar used his pharmaceutical company, Inyx Inc.,