He said that he discussed strategies to combat doping during the competitions with SA 2010 organisers.

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More recently, in 2010, Santos made headlines again after his Banco Panamericano SA was caught in an accounting fraud scandal which required him to make a trip to the capital in Brasilia to ask for help from then-President Lula da Silva.

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In 2010, by contrast only one company, farmed-salmon producer Compania Pesquera Camanchaca SA, launched an IPO.

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