For Stanford, a rich guy's guide to fleeing the United States

For financier con man Robert Vesco, Central America and the Caribbean beckoned when he was charged in the US with a $224 million mutual fund fraud.

Movie director Roman Polanski made do with Paris as his home 30 years ago to avoid jail for having sex with a 13 year-old girl in Los Angeles.

Charged with evading millions of dollars in US taxes, commodities trader Marc Rich lived openly in Switzerland for 18 years as one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives.