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	Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in Pakistan in 1972.
		The Bank of America was "bewildered" with BCCI and reduced its holding in 1980, and the company came to be held by a number of groups, with ICIC owning 70%.
		Following the report, the bank's liquidators launched the Three Rivers vs. Bank of England case, on behalf of thousands of BCCI creditors who are suing the Bank of England for its failure to properly oversee the bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International (1631 words)

	Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank.
		The bank was "almost certainly" insolvent by 1977 in that it was using cash from deposits to fund operating expenses rather than making investments, a take on a Ponzi scheme.
		In October 1985 the Bank of England and the Central Bank of Luxembourg ordered BCCI to change to a single accountant, alarmed at reported BCCI loses on the commodity and financial markets.
	www.webstercc.com /encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/b/ba/bank_of_credit_and_commerce_international.html (831 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Bank of Credit and Commerce International
		Bank of America (BofA) NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the third largest commercial bank in the United States of America, measured in assets, and the fourth-largest company in the world by the 2005 Forbes Global 2000.
		Amongst the customers of the bank at this time was Garrards and Mappin and Webb, the jewellers responsible for maintaining the crown jewels and markers of the trophy for the America's Cup July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining.
		James Reynolds Bath was a former director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and part owner of Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush, with whom Bath served as a member of the Texas Air National Guard.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bank-of-Credit-and-Commerce-International (3688 words)

	House of Lords - Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in Compulsory Liquidation) v. (1) Munawar Ali, (2) ...
		The liquidators of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal ([2000] ICR 1410) reversing a decision of Lightman J ([1999] ICR 1068).
		It quickly became clear and generally known that the bank was and had for some years been seriously insolvent and that a significant part of its business had been carried on in a corrupt and dishonest manner.
		The bank, through its senior employees, is fixed with knowledge of the bank's insolvency and nefarious practices, although it seems unlikely that those negotiating with the employees were alert to these facts, very carefully concealed from the world.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld200001/ldjudgmt/jd010301/credit-1.htm (3451 words)

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		Bank of Credit and Commerce InternationalBank of Credit and Commerce International, which, although officially closed in July 1991, continued to operate via Clearstream.
		When banking was nationalised in Pakistan in 1972, Mr Abedi founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce InternationalBank of Credit and Commerce International with the Bank of America NT Bert Lance
		One of the allegations against the bank in 1991 by the BOE was that it was involved in money laundering, a criminal activity in which the Banco Ambrosiano also was known to be involved as far back as 1982.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Bank-of-Credit-and-Commerce-International.htm (707 words)

	BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International - anagrams
		House of Lords - Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in.
		Bank Of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Sam Sharpe Square.
	commerce.crdit.net (312 words)

	The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI by Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 1991 collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was one of the biggest financial scandals of all time.
		As tangled as the thrift mess is, it pales in comparison with the scandal involving the Bank of Commerce and Credit Inc. When BCCI was shut down in 1991, the reported losses were $20 billion or more.
		The Outlaw Bank goes straight to the corrupt heart of the most spectacular financial scandal in history: the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
	www.beardbooks.com /the_outlaw_bank.html (2129 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: The Case That Kerry Cracked
		The bank was run by a Pakistani, working with Persian Gulf managers who operated through a network of secret offshore centers to hide their operations from the world’s bank examiners.
		When the bank was finally shut down nearly 20 years later, between $9.5 and $15 billion — the analysts differ — had been lost or stolen, making this the biggest bank fraud in the world.
		The bank also had friends in high places in the U.S. and, of course, the wink and nod of the CIA and the Reagan-Bush administration, which depended on its services.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20268 (3430 words)

	Sikka1b
		Bank regulators' reliance on external auditors is premised on the belief that the auditors are public spirited and will act on behalf of either the public or the state, and that auditors are independent of management.
		International accountancy partnerships could be asked to voluntarily modify their partnership agreements to provide for information sharing with foreign regulators, or the United States (and presumably other states) could unilaterally require accounting firms to reach such agreements with their international partners as a condition of licensing.
		In the banking industry, the interested parties include not only bank depositors, but also the citizens who may ultimately be required to rescue financially distressed banks with tax dollars and/or bear the consequences of economic disruptions caused by bank failures.
	www.sec.gov /rules/proposed/s71300/sikka1b.htm (14743 words)

	BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		http://www.cibc.com/ - 2 KB Bank of Credit and Commerce International
		http://www.firstusa.com/ - 26 KB BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce)
		from the disastrous collapse of Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA in the summer of 1991.
	commerce.crdit.biz (472 words)

	Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
		As it was, regulatory suspicion towards BCCI required the bank to deceive regulators in collusion with nominees including the heads of state of several foreign emirates, key political and intelligence figures from the Middle East, and entities controlled by the most important bank and banker in the Middle East.
		The FDIC approved Ghaith Pharaon's purchase of the Independence Bank in 1985 knowing him to be a shareholder of BCCI and knowing that he was placing a senior BCCI officer in charge of the bank, and failed to confer with the Federal Reserve or the OCC regarding their previous experiences with Pharaon and BCCI.
		The Bank of England, by a series of circumstances, became the kingpin in supervising and overseeing the supposed demise of BCCI.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/BCCI.htm (16725 words)

	‘Frauds-R-Us’The Bush Family Saga: BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerce)
		At about the same time, and just prior to the Gulf War, Harken Energy, with no previous international or offshore drilling experience, was awarded a 35-year petroleum exploration contract with the emirate of Bahrain.
		Sheikh Bahksh emerged as a co-investor in the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), a criminal enterprise since dissolved, that existed primarily as a mechanism for obtaining political influence using Middle Eastern oil money.
		Adham is referred to in the Kerry Committee report on BCCI as having been "the CIA's principal liaison for the entire Middle East from the mid-1960's through 1979." He was also the head of intelligence for Saudi Arabia during the time George Bush Sr.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3333.htm (622 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Politics News
		Wednesday, February 4, 1992; Page A1 Legendary Washington lawyer and presidential adviser Clark M. Clifford and his law partner Robert A. Altman agreed today to forfeit $5 million to settle charges by the Federal Reserve Board in the complex BCCI case, marking the final chapter in the government's nine-year pursuit of the two men.
		For nearly a decade, bank regulators, the Justice Department and the district attorney of New York (where BCCI had an office) tried to determine the relationship between BCCI, a global bank owned by Middle Easterners who were not allowed to own a U.S. bank, and Clifford and Altman.
		In July 1992, Clifford and Altman were indicted on criminal charges of fraud and lying to banking regulators in the BCCI case by both the Justice Department and the district attorney of New York.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/daily/oct98/cliff4.htm (962 words)

	ipedia.com: Bank of Credit and Commerce International Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International was a major international bank.
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International Article - ipedia.com
		After a nine year struggle due to the Bank's statutory immunity the suit was accepted and went to trial in January 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /bank_of_credit_and_commerce_international.html (900 words)

	Date of Birth: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd v Akindele [1999] BCC 669
		Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [1993] BCC 787
		Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [1992] BCLC 570
	www.southsquare.com /richard_sheldon.html (464 words)

	Bank of Credit and Commerce International
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		In July 1991, the fraud infested Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was closed by the Bank of England.
		Bank of England vows to fight £850m BCCI case to the finish (5 Oct 2005)
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd. v.
	visar.csustan.edu /aaba/bccipage.html (1180 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 09/16/2001: "Bank of Credit and Commerce International" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet what does emerge is a complex pattern of personal and financial relationships behind Harken's sudden good fortune in the Middle East, raising the question of whether Bahrainis or others in the Middle East may have hoped to ingratiate themselves with the White House.
		Stephens was among the defendants in that suit, aimed at preventing a First American takeover by BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI principal Kamal Adham and Abdullah Darwaish, chief financier for the royal family of Abu Dhabi.
		To comply with U.S. banking laws, the deal assumed a complex new structure, and UBS decided to unload its shares to a third party at the first chance, according to Mr.
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	Political Friendster - Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Connections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Political Friendster - Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Connections
		It was found to be involved in money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, and other crimes.
		When the bank collapsed, $13 billion was unaccounted for.
	www.politicalfriendster.com /showPerson.php?id=160&name=Bank-of-Credit-and-Commerce-International (220 words)

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		Bank unwillingly issued a short-term credit card for the travel.
		Bank of Credit and Commerce International (“BCCI”) was started in...
		Intelligence, was BCCI, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International...
	www.uwezine.com /credit/6/bank-card-credit-one-pug.html (565 words)

	National Review: The real scandal - Bank of Credit and Commerce International S.A
		SENATOR John Kerry (D., Mass.) is currently a Washington hero for uncovering the nefarious deeds of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
		The villains--the folks being investigated in Congress and savaged in the press-are Justice Department and Federal Reserve functionaries who supposedly failed to crack down on the bank.
		Kerry's subcommittee--the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics, and international operations--voted to subpoena BCCI's records on its Panama operations and summon BCCI officials to testify.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n18_v43/ai_11373838 (427 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Business \| \| BCCI liquidators sue sheikh for £289m
		Liquidators winding down the scandal-hit Bank of Credit and Commerce International are personally suing a Middle Eastern ruler for £289.4m they claim he owes the stricken bank.
		Heroin and alcohol were found in his system, and the East Sussex coroner ruled his death to have been caused by the non-dependent abuse of drugs.
		In the wake of BCCI's collapse, the bank was found to be riddled with fraud; "fl holes" in the bank's accounts, totalling $13bn, made it the greatest financial scandal in history.
	business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,3604,280547,00.html (507 words)

	Bank of Credit and Commerce International - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International) [1] (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0033772.html), 1972 (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972)-1991 (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991), discussed at length by Senator (http://www.senate.gov/kerry/) John Kerry and Senator (http://dodd.senate.gov/press/Speeches/104_96/0930c.htm) Hank Brown in The BCCI Affair (http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/): A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations (http://foreign.senate.gov/), United States Senate.
		And BCCI went beyond merely offering financial assistance to dictators and terrorists: According to Time, the operation itself was an elaborate fraud, replete with a 'global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad.'"
		"It was not merely BCCI's deception that permitted it to infiltrate the United States and its banking system.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=BCCI (369 words)

	Common Cause Magazine: BCCI: the opera - Bank of Credit and Commerce International
		Sheik Aghan Hassan Abedi sings with vision of a new bank, a Third World bank, where the resources of developing countries and their citizens will be free from control by Western financial elites.
		Abedi and a chorus of bank officials celebrate the bank's rise to prominence in the international financial world.
		A discordant note slows the triumphant march when a U.S. banking regulator, raising a host of questions regarding the ability of any country to oversee BCCI, forbids it from purchasing an American bank.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1554/is_n1_v18/ai_12100033 (473 words)

	mhp: Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
		^ Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) (1972 to 1991)
		• International bank founded by Agha Hasan Abedi of Pakistan, with branches worldwide.
		Held a major share in the company until the early 1980s.
	www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=BCCI&Start=1991 (324 words)

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		Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (No 9): Re Bank of Credit and Commerce
		Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (No 7): Morris and others v Al-Mirabi
		Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (No 5): Sheikh Khalid v Bank of Credit
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	An MBendi Profile - Organisation: Bank of Credit & Commerce International Nigeria Ltd
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		Bank of Credit & Commerce International Nigeria Ltd
		The Bank of Credit & Commerce is a commercial bank
	www.mbendi.co.za /orgs/ce43.htm (122 words)

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