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Bar & Bench
April 5, 2018
As a case in point, when the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was being liquidated in Luxemburg, the Cayman Islands and the UK, the ... English courts will not recognise the sanctity of the Indian resolution process and a foreign creditor whose relationship is governed by English law canÃâà...
New York Times
March 16, 2018
Although there are few firm details about how a commoner came to vast wealth, he managed to forge influential connections. ... a billionaire who later became enmeshed in the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1991, at the time one of the largest private banks in the world.
Esquire.com
February 13, 2018
One of them involved the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which had positioned itself as a full-service laundromat for what appeared to be every despot and international crook on the planet. Compared to BCCI, what Paul Manafort is accused of is the equivalent of taking your laundryÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 20, 2017
BCI was also the predecessor to the scandal plagued Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) that was later found to be peddling in terror ..... There's been a host of characters and Deep State actors that have an uncanny connection surrounding a swirling conspiracy in JFK's death and thisÃâà...
Savannah Morning News
July 21, 2017
Pharaon, who purchased the Ford property in 1981 for $3.6 million, was prosecuted with U.S. authorities for violating federal banking laws after it was discovered he had secretly acquired control of two U.S. banks while he was an investor in BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). BCCI wasÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
July 21, 2017
”numerous links among Harken, Bahrain and individuals close to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.” Stephens is one of them. Several years ago, the ... The personal relationship between the Bush and Salinas families is a matter of public record. Former President George Bush — when heÃâà...
Seven Days
July 12, 2017
It described diGenova as a "white-hot media presence, politically connected lawyer and all-around agent provocateur" and noted, "He and [Victoria] ... Ruby Ridge shootout and 1993 Waco siege, and the former president of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International — an institution nicknamed theÃâà...
Baltimore City Paper
June 25, 2017
Two of those cases—the prosecution of Manuel Noriega and the investigation into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International—illustrate the issues ... Consider what happened after FBI Special Agent Walt Stowe walked into Trump's office with Daniel Sullivan, a mob-connected "labor consultant" TrumpÃâà...
New York Times
June 6, 2017
Over-the-top parties were part of Mr. Khashoggi's business strategy, which he believed required flaunting his wealth and powerful connections. “It's all part of the .... In 1988, he was arrested in Switzerland and accused of concealing funds in the bankruptcy of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Liberation
May 20, 2017
When Muller was tasked with investigating the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, he ignored their money laundering and connections to the Bin Ladin family, the Bushes or anyone else deemed inconvenient. After J. Edgar Hoover, Mueller was the longest serving FBI Director. He was the agency'sÃâà...
MuckRock
May 18, 2017
Believing there was a connection, he filed a lawsuit over it, only to have it dismissed. ... to certain materials in their investigation - one that would ultimately find connections between the PROMIS case, the death of Danny Casolaro, and the CIA-linked Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
New York Times
May 4, 2017
The episode, involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, cost depositors an estimated $12 million. His legal strategies also led the federal government in 1991 to drop its fraud and embezzlement case against Representative Floyd H. Flake, a Queens Democrat. He persuaded a jury to acquitÃâà...
CNBC
July 15, 2016
Robert Mazur was a federal agent — but not with the FBI like you might assume. He worked for the IRS, the United States Customs Service (now part of the Department of Homeland Security) and the Drug Enforcement Agency. And, he pulled off one of the biggest undercover operations of all time: HeÃâà...
The National Interest Online
June 30, 2016
Many Americans will recall the scandal involving the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in the 1980s and early 1990s. But most Americans are unaware of the connection between BCCI and Hillary Clinton when she was working for the Rose Law Firm. Billionaire Little Rock ArkansasÃâà...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
May 12, 2016
In this excerpt from his new book, Scott focuses on the troubling relationship between Ronald Reagan's CIA director, William Casey, and BCCI, ... was Agha Hasan Abedi, a close adviser to General Zia of Pakistan and, more important, the head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI):.
CounterPunch
March 11, 2016
It was Jackson Stephens who brokered the arrival of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)–the bank later identified as an institution of preference for global criminals and drug ... Seal, at this time was in close contact with North, who acknowledged the relationship in his memoir. These wereÃâà...