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World Service,25 Aug 2009,25 mins

Project Alcatraz

Global Business

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What makes a businessman turn gangsters into employees? Find out this week in Global Business when Peter Day talks to Alberto Vollmer of the Santa Teresa Rum Company in Venezuela. Alberto Vollmer tells Peter Day how the theft of a security guard’s gun led him to set up a project which has cut crime in his area by 40% and has now become an integral part of this 200 year old family business.

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