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- ADIA
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- Organization
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- AbuDhabi
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- BCCI
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summary: "Sovereign investment institution of Abu Dhabi, founded 1976, which held 10 percent of BCCI from 1980 and was awarded 1.347 billion dollars against BCCI's convicted executives in 1994."
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start: 1976
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location: "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"
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- type: owned
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with: "[[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]]"
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role: "10 percent shareholder"
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start: 1980
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end: 1991
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with: "[[Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui]]"
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role: "secretary general"
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The [[Abu Dhabi]] Investment Authority (ADIA) is, in its own description to the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, "a public institution established by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1976 as an independent investment institution."[^1] From 1980 it held 10 percent of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] (BCCI), and its secretary general from 1976, [[Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui|Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui]], represented it on BCCI's board from 1981 and became the bank's chairman.[^2]
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### BCCI
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According to the [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report|Kerry-Brown Senate Report]], after the fall in 1980 of Abdullah Darweish, the adviser who managed the investments of the ruling family, Sheikh [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan|Zayed]] directed ADIA to acquire a 10 percent stake in BCCI from [[ICIC]], BCCI's Cayman affiliate, which had agreed to buy back the shares of the departing [[Bank of America]]. Unlike the ruling family, which appeared to have contributed no more than 500,000 dollars to BCCI's capital before April 1990, ADIA "appears to have made some cash payments for its interest in BCCI," whose book value was about 250 million dollars at the end of 1989.[^2]
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After BCCI's closure ADIA joined the Private Department of the UAE president in suing the bank's former executives in Abu Dhabi, and on June 14, 1994, the court awarded it 1.347 billion dollars of the 9.13 billion dollars in damages.[^3] ADIA held 10 percent of Union National Bank, the former Bank of Credit and Commerce Emirates. In January 1995 BCCI's liquidators agreed to sell the bank's 40 percent stake in it back to the Abu Dhabi government for about 27.4 million dollars, and an Abu Dhabi official said the government would later transfer its 50 percent holding to ADIA; the purchase was completed in May 1996.[^4][^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, "Abu Dhabi Investment Authority." https://www.ifswf.org/members/abu-dhabi-investment-authority
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[^2]: Kerry, Senator John, and Senator Hank Brown. *The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.* December 1992, ch. 14, "Abu Dhabi: BCCI's Founding and Majority Stockholders." https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/14abudhabi.htm
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[^3]: Hussain, Thomas. "UAE jails and fines BCCI executives," United Press International, June 14, 1994. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/06/14/UAE-jails-and-fines-BCCI-executives/7650771566400/
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[^4]: "Abu Dhabi to buy BCCI share in UAE bank," United Press International, January 31, 1995. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/01/31/Abu-Dhabi-to-buy-BCCI-share-in-UAE-bank/6991791528400/
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[^5]: "BCCI small depositors paid in UAE," United Press International, October 11, 1997. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1997/10/11/BCCI-small-depositors-paid-in-UAE/2814876542400/
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- Banking
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- BCCI
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- Intelligence
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summary: "The Bank of England is the UK's central bank and was the primary regulator of BCCI's British operations; its failure to act on clear warning signs about BCCI's fraud was documented in the 1992 Bingham Report, making it central to any account of how BCCI operated for so long under regulatory cover."
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summary: "Central bank of the United Kingdom and BCCI's principal supervisor, which propped up the bank in secret from 1990 before closing it in July 1991."
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location: "London, United Kingdom"
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### BCCI Supervision and Failure
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The [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] was registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]], but its primary operations and management were based in [[London]]. The Bank of England, as UK banking supervisor, was responsible for overseeing BCCI's British operations - its 65 branches and the London-based senior management.
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The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]], but its primary operations and management were based in London. The Bank of England, as UK banking supervisor, was responsible for overseeing BCCI's British operations - its 65 branches and the London-based senior management.
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Multiple warnings about BCCI's fraudulent operations reached the Bank of England before the July 1991 closure. The Price Waterhouse audit firm, which had discovered systematic fraud in its 1990-1991 review of BCCI accounts, disclosed its findings to the Bank of England under a provision of the Banking Act 1987. The Bank of England was also in receipt of intelligence from U.S. authorities, including the [[CIA]], about BCCI's criminal operations from at least 1985. Despite these inputs, the Bank of England did not close BCCI but instead pursued a secret plan - agreed with [[Abu Dhabi]]'s Sheikh Zayed - to reorganize the bank under Abu Dhabi ownership.
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The [[Bingham Report]] - formally the Report of Inquiry into the Supervision of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by Lord Justice Bingham in October 1992 - examined the Bank of England's supervisory failures in detail. The Report found that the Bank had received numerous indicators of BCCI's problems over the years and had failed to investigate them adequately. It attributed the failures to the Bank's culture of giving the benefit of the doubt to those it regulated, its limited enforcement powers, and the deliberate complexity of BCCI's corporate structure.[^2]
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The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] in the United States was more critical, suggesting that intelligence about BCCI's criminal nature had been available and suppressed for reasons that included the bank's CIA utility. The Senate report documented the Bank of England's awareness of intelligence assessments from the CIA and others that went beyond mere supervisory information.[^1]
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The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] in the [[United States]] was more critical, suggesting that intelligence about BCCI's criminal nature had been available and suppressed for reasons that included the bank's [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] utility. The Senate report documented the Bank of England's awareness of intelligence assessments from the CIA and others that went beyond mere supervisory information.[^1]
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### Role in Broader Financial Oversight
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The Bank of England is also referenced in this vault through its historical role in overseeing the City of London's offshore financial markets, which provided the regulatory architecture within which [[Eurodollar]] markets and offshore bond markets developed. These markets were used extensively by the arms-brokering and intelligence-connected financial flows documented in subjects including [[Iran-Contra Affair]] and the [[BNL scandal]].[^1]
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### The Kerry-Brown Findings
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The [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report|Kerry-Brown Senate Report]] recorded that the Bank considered BCCI "the most difficult bank we have to deal with" as far back as the 1970s, and set out its conduct in a list of findings. In 1988 and 1989 the Bank learned of BCCI's involvement in financing terrorism and laundering drug money. In the spring of 1990 Price Waterhouse told it of substantial loan losses, poor banking practices and evidence of fraud, and its response "was not to close BCCI down, but to find ways to prop up BCCI and prevent its collapse," which meant "keeping secret the very serious nature of BCCI's problems from its creditors and one million depositors." In April 1990 the Bank reached an agreement with BCCI, Abu Dhabi and Price Waterhouse under which Abu Dhabi guaranteed BCCI's losses and Price Waterhouse certified its books. The Bank withheld information from the [[Federal Reserve Board|Federal Reserve]] in the spring of 1990 about BCCI's lending on the shares of [[First American Bank|First American]]'s holding company, which "delayed the opening of a full investigation by the Federal Reserve for approximately eight months." In late 1990 and early 1991 it tentatively agreed to let BCCI restructure as three separate banks in London, Abu Dhabi and [[Hong Kong]], a decision the report said "demonstrated extraordinarily poor judgment," before deciding abruptly in late June 1991 to close it. Its decision of April 1990 to let BCCI move its headquarters, officers and records to Abu Dhabi "constituted a costly, and likely irretrievable, error."[^3] [[Robin Leigh-Pemberton]] told the House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee that on receipt of the [[Price Waterhouse]] reports of April and October 1990 the Bank had been "alerted to [fraud and deceit]," but that "our view was that even if this added up to individual acts of fraudulent conduct it did not give evidence of a system of fraud throughout the Bank which was wide enough to justify closure. I hope it does not shock you too much, it is only a matter of realism that we do have occasions of fraud in banks... if we close down a bank every time we find an individual act or two of fraud we would have rather fewer banks than we do at the moment." On warning depositors he said: "A hint from the Bank of England that somebody on our list may not be quite pukka would be the kiss of death to the future of a bank."[^3]
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The Price Waterhouse draft report to the Bank dated June 22, 1991, code-named "Sandstorm," found evidence of "widespread fraud and manipulation" and was, in the words of the Senate report, "the final evidence that lead to the shutdown of BCCI globally on July 5, 1991." The Senate subcommittee received it only "in a heavily censured form" at the insistence of the Bank of England.[^4]
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### Three Rivers
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BCCI's liquidators, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, sued the Bank for 850 million pounds (1.78 billion dollars), the first such suit brought against it; because the Bank was protected from negligence claims, the liquidators alleged that 22 of its officials were guilty of "misfeasance," acting dishonestly or in bad faith. The trial, *Three Rivers District Council v. Bank of England*, began in January 2004, with opening speeches of 119 days for the Bank and 80 days for Deloitte. On November 2, 2005, Deloitte dropped the case after the Chancellor of the High Court said that continuing was no longer in the creditors' interests; the Bank called it "unconditional surrender," and its counsel, Nicholas Stadlen, "the most remarkable and humiliating climb down in the history of English litigation."[^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Bank of England," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bank-of-England
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[^2]: Kerry, John, and Brown, Hank. *The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations.* United States Senate, 1992.
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[^3]: Kerry, Senator John, and Senator Hank Brown. *The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.* December 1992, ch. 12, "The Regulators." https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/12reg.htm
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[^4]: Kerry, Senator John, and Senator Hank Brown. *The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.* December 1992, ch. 4, "BCCI's Criminality." https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm
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[^5]: "BCCI's $1.8-billion suit against Bank of England collapses," Reuters, *The Globe and Mail,* November 3, 2005. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bccis-18-billion-suit-against-bank-of-england-collapses/article18251998/
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category: "Business & Finance"
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- Organization
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- NewZealand
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- Banking
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- Privatization
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- StatutoryManagement
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- Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand
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summary: "New Zealand state development lender founded in 1964, corporatized in 1987, sold in 1988 to the National Provident Fund and Salomon Brothers, and placed in statutory management as insolvent in October 1989."
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location: "Wellington, New Zealand"
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The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was "originally established by an Act of Parliament in 1964 to encourage investment by providing financial assistance and financial advisory services to industry." It was first owned by private banks, the [[Reserve Bank of New Zealand|Reserve Bank]] and the [[New Zealand]] government; the government assumed sole ownership in 1973.[^1]
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### Chemical Technology
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In 1981 the corporation reported favourably on the viability of the whey-to-ethanol project of [[Chemical Technology Limited]] at [[Temuka]], alongside two regional development suspensory loans totalling 120,235 dollars approved for the company on the recommendation of the South Canterbury Regional Development Council, according to the Minister of Immigration, [[Kerry Burke]], in October 1984.[^2] The company's American director, known as Dr Stanley Stokowski, was the fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]].
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### Sale and Collapse
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The corporation became a state-owned enterprise, DFC New Zealand Ltd, on April 1, 1987. Its 1987 annual report, signed by its chairman, Malcolm McConnell, said that the directors had "maintained DFC's relatively conservative accounting policies of previous years and, coupled with a rigorous approach to prudential management, this has ensured that the profit result is based on high quality earnings." In June 1988 the government announced the sale of 80 percent to the [[National Provident Fund]] and 20 percent to [[Salomon Brothers]] for 111.28 million dollars; the National Party opposition argued that the company was being "deliberately under-priced" to advantage senior managers who were to buy 20 percent later.[^1]
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In December 1988 DFC applied to become a registered bank. A management review of its loan portfolio in August and September 1989 concluded that it needed a large capital injection; its shareholders and the government declined to provide one. On October 2, 1989, the company advised the Reserve Bank that it had limited liquidity and was technically insolvent, and on October 3 it was placed in statutory management under section 38R of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Act 1986. The Reserve Bank governor, [[Don Brash]], later wrote that "the reputation of New Zealand and its financial system were very much at stake." Its total liabilities had risen from 1.578 billion dollars in 1986 to 2.881 billion in 1989.[^1]
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[^1]: Smith, Christie. "DFC NZ: a cautionary tale of one company's financial failure," preliminary draft, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, June 16, 2011. https://www.nzae.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/Session4/44_Smith.pdf
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[^2]: "Impostor: immigration cleared of blame," *The Press* (Christchurch), October 3, 1984. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19841003.2.23
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- New Zealand Security Service
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summary: "New Zealand's domestic intelligence agency, founded in 1956 as the New Zealand Security Service on the model of MI5 and given its present name and a statute in 1969."
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The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) is [[New Zealand]]'s domestic intelligence agency. It was established on November 28, 1956, as the New Zealand Security Service; "until then, apart from a brief period during the Second World War, national security had been handled by the Police," and between 1956 and 1969 it "existed without a legislative base." The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Act 1969 gave it its present name, recognized it in statute, and defined its role as protecting New Zealand "from threats of espionage, sabotage and subversion."[^1]
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### Origins
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The Police Special Branch was set up in December 1949 and concentrated on the [[Communist Party of New Zealand|Communist Party]] and other "radicals"; its limitations were exposed in the 1951 waterfront dispute. In November 1956 the government created the independent Security Service, and the Special Branch was disbanded by August 1957, after "a series of damning reports on the Special Branch from the controller general of police and from British and Australian security service officers" and amid concerns over corruption at the top of the police. The Soviet defector [[Vladimir Petrov]] had alleged in Australia that an informer was operating at a high level in the New Zealand government.[^2]
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### The Cold War
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The service, "closely modelled on the British [[MI5]]," concentrated its counter-espionage on the Soviet and East European embassies, and from 1973 on the new Chinese embassy. In 1962 it exposed two Soviet diplomats who were expelled for attempting to obtain information through bribery. In 1974 the economist and former senior public servant [[William Sutch]] was arrested and charged with espionage after an SIS investigation; he was acquitted. After the Sutch case and a scandal over leaked documents, the Ombudsman reported in 1976 that the service should concentrate on counter-espionage rather than counter-subversion; the amendment bill of 1977, which expanded its power to intercept communications, drew large protests. In 1980 an SIS investigation led to the expulsion of the Soviet ambassador, [[Vsevolod Sofinsky]], for allegedly passing money to the [[Socialist Unity Party (New Zealand)|Socialist Unity Party]].[^2]
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During the [[1981 Springbok tour]] the service supplied Prime Minister [[Robert Muldoon]] with a list of eight "subversives" and seven "radicals not positively known to be members of subversive groups," which Muldoon published in an attempt to discredit the protest movement. In December 1981 an SIS officer mislaid a briefcase that was found by a ten-year-old boy whose mother, Fran O'Sullivan, was a parliamentary journalist; it contained, according to the reports, "three cold oval meat pies, two slices of cake, copies of the latest Listener and Penthouse, three identity cards, the man's letter of appointment to the SIS ... and pages from what appeared to be a notebook."[^2]
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### The Stokowski Affair
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Under Brigadier [[Lindsay Smith]], director from 1983 to 1991, the service declined to comment on the disappearance in March 1984 of the American known as Dr Stanley Stokowski, a director of [[Chemical Technology Limited]], whom a Sunday newspaper had described as a Russian spy; Smith said it was "a matter for the police and for customs."[^3] The man was the fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]]. Smith's term also covered the bombing of the [[Rainbow Warrior]] in 1985.[^4]
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### Legislation
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The statutory definition of security was amended in 1977 "to take account of international terrorism," again in 1996 and 1999, and in 2003 to align with the [[Terrorism Suppression Act 2002]]. Further changes followed with the Intelligence and Security Act 2017.[^1]
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[^1]: New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, "Our history." http://web.archive.org/web/20260513190640/https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/about-us/our-history
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[^2]: Clayworth, Peter. "Intelligence services: The Cold War, 1945 to 1984," *Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand,* May 29, 2012. http://web.archive.org/web/20250919013618/https://teara.govt.nz/en/intelligence-services/page-2
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[^3]: "Police look for U.S. chemist," *The Press* (Christchurch), June 6, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840606.2.48
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[^4]: "Obituary: John Lindsay Smith," *The New Zealand Herald,* September 20, 2002. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/iobituaryi-john-lindsay-smith/MKZ33367T76UQ4HMATRFJYPYGY/
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summary: "British prosecuting agency for serious and complex fraud, which opened its BCCI investigation in 1991 and convicted the bank's treasury chief Ziauddin Akbar in 1993 and its largest debtor Abbas Gokal in 1997."
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the British agency that investigates and prosecutes serious and complex fraud in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report|Kerry-Brown Senate Report]] described it as "the British version of the financial crimes unit within the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]."[^1]
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According to the Senate report, the [[Bank of England]] alerted the SFO to begin an investigation of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] (BCCI) one week after receiving the draft [[Sandstorm Report]] of [[Price Waterhouse]] on June 22, 1991, four days before the bank's worldwide closure on July 5.[^2] The report recorded that when the office of the Manhattan District Attorney, [[Robert Morgenthau]], sought BCCI documents from the SFO, it "was unwilling to provide it with any assistance," and listed the SFO with BCCI's lawyers, accountants and shareholders, the Bank of England and the Justice Department among the institutions that, "while professing to cooperate with the District Attorney, in fact withheld information." It also found that the investigations of the [[Federal Reserve Board|Federal Reserve]] had been hampered by the SFO, which prevented it from interviewing certain witnesses and reviewing certain documents in the [[United Kingdom]].[^1][^2]
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On September 27, 1993, [[Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar]], the former head of BCCI's treasury division in London, pleaded guilty at the [[Old Bailey]] to sixteen counts of false accounting, and the next day was sentenced to six years, the first criminal conviction arising from BCCI's collapse; an SFO official said no further criminal prosecution of him was planned. Three further BCCI-related trials were then scheduled for January 1994.[^3]
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In September 1992 the SFO opened an inquiry into BCCI's loans to the [[Gulf Group]] of the [[Gokal brothers]], drawing on records from the London liquidators, [[Touche Ross]], and from [[Grand Cayman]], [[Abu Dhabi]] and two New York banks. [[Abbas Gokal]] was arrested at [[Frankfurt]] in July 1994, extradited, and charged in February 1995; after a trial of 122 days at the Old Bailey he was convicted of conspiracy to account falsely and conspiracy to defraud, and on May 8, 1997, he was sentenced to fourteen years, the heaviest sentence the SFO had then obtained. The trial cost about 10 million pounds.[^4][^5]
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[^1]: Kerry and Brown, *The BCCI Affair,* ch. 9, "BCCI and Law Enforcement: District Attorney of New York." https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/09ny.htm
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[^2]: Kerry, Senator John, and Senator Hank Brown. *The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.* December 1992, ch. 12, "The Regulators." https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/12reg.htm
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[^3]: "BCCI official gets six years for fraud charges," United Press International, September 28, 1993. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/09/28/BCCI-official-gets-six-years-for-fraud-charges/3315749188800/
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[^4]: "On the trail of Gokal," *Accountancy Age,* May 23, 1997. https://accountancyage.com/1997/05/23/on-the-trail-of-gokal/
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[^5]: "Gokal sentenced to 14 years for BCCI fraud," *The Irish Times,* May 9, 1997. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/gokal-sentenced-to-14-years-for-bcci-fraud-1.70650
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