Citibank's procedures require that three people sign off on a transaction of this size. In this case, that was Raj, a colleague of his in India, and a senior Citibank official in Delaware named Vincent Fratta. All three believed that setting the "principal" field to an internal wash account number would prevent payment of the principal. As he approved the transaction, Fratta wrote: "looks good, please proceed. Principal is going to wash."
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Citibank's procedures require that three people sign off on a transaction of this size. In this case, that was Raj, a colleague of his in India, and a senior Citibank official in Delaware named Vincent Fratta. All three believed that setting the "principal" field to an internal wash account number would prevent payment of the principal. As he approved the transaction, Fratta wrote: "looks good, please proceed. Principal is going to wash."