A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the World

by Douglas Frantz (Author), Douglas Frantz (Author), James Ring Adams (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $5.77

  On 5 July 1991, BCCI offices were shut down in the UK, the US and five other countries. The bank and its founder were indicted on charges of grand larceny, bribery and money laundering and a $200 million dollar fine was imposed. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was used by dictators, drug dealers and arms merchants. This book exposes BCCI's criminal schemes and its increasingly precarious financial status. It uses previously unpublished internal bank documents, the minutes of BCCI's executive meetings and extensive interviews.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.29

  Known to some as the Bank of Crooks and Criminals , BCCI was the favourite clearing house of dictators, drug traffickers and arms merchants. Its policies - no questions asked, no accounts refused - fitted the far-reaching, secret aims of the likes of the CIA, Panama's Manual Noriega and the most feared and lethal anti-Western terrorist, Abu Nidal. On 5 July 1991, BCCI branches were simultaneously shut down in the UK, US and five other countries, and it was revealed that the bank was a corrupt criminal organization throughout its entire 19-year history . In this account, two investigative journalists expose a scandal that affected not only the criminal depositors but ruined the lives of thousands of workers and small businesses who had trusted the family bank with their savings.