Nathan Jacobson: Tel Aviv, Israel

Canadian Politicians Dept: Nathan Jacobson, a Winnipeg businessman who struck it rich in Russia in the 1990s, rubbed elbows frequently with Canadian politicians, including Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, because they had no idea he faced legal trouble in the United States, according to Montreal Gazette. Jacobson cleared more than $46 million in drug payments through his credit card company, RX Payments Ltd., which was registered in Malta but operated in Tel Aviv, Israel, sending the money to bank accounts in Cyprus and oTTAWA A Canadian businessman who pleaded guilty to money-laundering in San Diego in 2008 was able to hob-nob with Canadian politicians for four years because American authorities kept his file sealed while he helped with their investigation into an illegal online pharmacy. Jacobson was one of 18 defendants indicted by a grand jury in San Diego in 2006 in connection with Affpower, an online pharmacy that shipped drugs to patients in the United States from Costa Rica without legal prescriptions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.