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aliases:
- Britain
category: "Country"
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- Country
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### BCCI
The [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] maintained its principal global management headquarters in [[London]] while being registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]]. The [[Bank of England]] was the UK's regulatory authority for BCCI's British operations and received significant criticism in the subsequent [[Bingham Report]] (1992) for failing to act on warning signs. BCCI's British collapse on July 5, 1991, affected approximately 120,000 UK depositors. The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] documented the bank's UK operations as central to its intelligence-connected financial flows.[^2]
The [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] maintained its principal global management headquarters in London while being registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]]. The [[Bank of England]] was the UK's regulatory authority for BCCI's British operations and received significant criticism in the subsequent [[Bingham Report]] (1992) for failing to act on warning signs. BCCI's British collapse on July 5, 1991, affected approximately 120,000 UK depositors. The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] documented the bank's UK operations as central to its intelligence-connected financial flows.[^2]
### Robert Maxwell
Press baron [[Robert Maxwell]], a Czech-born British citizen whose claimed Mossad connections are attested by former Israeli intelligence officers [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Victor Ostrovsky]], built his empire from [[Oxford]]-based [[Pergamon Press]] and later [[Mirror Group Newspapers]]. [[Nicholas Davies]], the Daily Mirror's foreign editor, was accused of being a Mossad asset. Maxwell died under disputed circumstances in November 1991; the subsequent collapse of his business empire revealed massive pension fund fraud.[^1]
Press baron [[Robert Maxwell]], a Czech-born British citizen whose claimed Mossad connections are attested by former Israeli intelligence officers [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Victor Ostrovsky]], built his empire from [[Oxford]]-based [[Pergamon Press]] and later [[Mirror Group Newspapers]]. [[Nicholas Davies]], the [[Daily Mirror]]'s foreign editor, was accused of being a Mossad asset. Maxwell died under disputed circumstances in November 1991; the subsequent collapse of his business empire revealed massive pension fund fraud.[^1]
### Arms-to-Iraq
The United Kingdom's covert support for [[Saddam Hussein]]'s arms procurement during the [[Iran-Iraq War]] was examined in the [[Scott Inquiry]] (1992-1996). British companies including [[Matrix Churchill]] supplied precision machine tools for weapons production under export licenses that the government secretly knew would facilitate weapons manufacturing. [[Mark Gutteridge]] and other Matrix Churchill directors were prosecuted; the trial collapsed after ministerial public interest immunity certificates were used to suppress intelligence documents. The Scott Report found that UK export policy had been changed without informing Parliament.[^2]
The United Kingdom's covert support for [[Saddam Hussein]]'s arms procurement during the Iran-Iraq War was examined in the [[Scott Inquiry]] (1992-1996). British companies including [[Matrix Churchill]] supplied precision machine tools for weapons production under export licenses that the government secretly knew would facilitate weapons manufacturing. [[Mark Gutteridge]] and other Matrix Churchill directors were prosecuted; the trial collapsed after ministerial public interest immunity certificates were used to suppress intelligence documents. The Scott Report found that UK export policy had been changed without informing Parliament.[^2]
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