Money | Robert Allen Stanford Stanford Bank in Antigua Missing $8B 'It appears to be a Ponzi scheme,' investigator says By Nick McMaster Posted Feb 22, 2009 5:03 PM CST Copied In this Feb. 19, 2009 file photo, customers of Stanford Bank walk outside one of its offices in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Carlos Hernandez, File) Investigators rummaging around Allen Stanford's Antiguan bank have confirmed media reports that $8 billion is missing, the Times of London reports. “The $8 billion you hear about in the media isn’t there,” one official told customers outside the Stanford International Bank. "It appears to be a Ponzi scheme.” "We will be tracking the money in overseas banks, find a million in one, track another million to another bank,” the investigator said. “But there is nothing like $8 billion here." Read These Next It's the most modern of insults: Clanker. He survived 43 days in a 'most dangerous' Australian desert. European nations make their own peace proposal. Why Winston Churchill never got his platypus. Report an error