A ruler’s security apparatus can be self-financing through off-budget funds

Evidence

By 2000, SIN was receiving 8 to 9 million dollars per month altogether from three sources inside Peru: its official budget, under the table transfers by government agencies, and payments from Montesinos’s collaborators in arms deals or other illegal businesses (McMillan and Zoido 2004, 76). Montesinos reportedly also received massive chunks of money from the American CIA for his collaboration in the U.S. war on drugs. Meanwhile, he stashed millions of dollars in his own Swiss bank accounts. No one held him accountable for the huge amounts of cash he handled. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 62

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 62
• XREF: connects to: A regent appointment functions as a loan of protection assets by rich families — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 295; Debt and finance work biopolitically to produce compliant self-financing subjectivities — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 90

Broader Connections

• Debt and finance work biopolitically to produce compliant self-financing subjectivities #expands (0.76) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 90
• A regent appointment functions as a loan of protection assets by rich families #exemplifies (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 295