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Bermuda-based investors had $2m in Stanford's bank

Allen Stanford: His bank had 12 Bermuda account holders

Twelve Bermuda-based account holders had a combined total of nearly $2 million in alleged fraudster Allen Stanford’s Antigua-licensed Stanford International Bank Ltd, according to a report by the online OffshoreAlert newsletter.The article said the website had obtained the information from a document which breaks down deposits by jurisdiction, number of accounts and total deposits.The spreadsheet shows that, in all, 78,363 account-holders from 114 jurisdictions are owed a total of $7.2 billion at an average of $92,000 per account.Bermuda, with its 12 accounts totalling $1.94 million at an average balance of more than $161,600, appears to have been much less exposed to the freezing of the bank’s assets than other financial centres.The BVI had 456 accounts with deposits totalling $84.6 million, The Bahamas had 29 accounts with deposits of $15.5 million, and the Cayman Islands had 15 accounts with deposits of $7.5 million.The jurisdiction whose account-holders were owed the most is the US, where 12,675 accounts had deposits totalling $1.57 billion. Canada had 879 accounts had deposits totalling $308 million; the United Kingdom, 774 accounts with deposits of $63 million; and Spain, 388 accounts with deposits of $29 million.The jurisdiction with the highest deposit amount per account is Libya, whose nine account-holders had deposits totalling nearly $59 million for an average of $6.5 million per account, followed remarkably by one of the world’s poorest countries, Senegal.Mexico’s 11,042 accounts had deposits totalling $932 million and there were 1,128 account holders from Haiti with total deposits of $220 million.Other notable jurisdictions include Russia, 88 accounts with deposits of $11.5 million, the United Arab Emirates, 36 accounts totalling $6.6 million and China, 15 accounts with deposits of just over $1 million.