

Description
All great crimes depend for their successful execution upon a combination of circumstances and originality. Arthur Virgilio Alves Reis had a great project: To gain control of the Bank of Portugal. He was in the right circumstances: He was a businessman. He knew how to prepare official documents and he had useful friends. And he had originality: It was a once-only crime ? no one had tried it before and nobody was likely to get away with it again.



