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# BCCI Scandal

Central figures in the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) banking scandal.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil]] | Khalil was one of the nominees used by Abedi to secretly purchase shares in CCAH, the holding company that owned First American Bank. |
| [[Abbas Gokal]] | Chairman of the Gulf Group shipping empire, BCCI's largest debtor, convicted at the Old Bailey in 1997 and sentenced to fourteen years. |
| [[Abdur Sakhia]] | BCCI's senior officer in the United States, who testified in 1991 on BCCI's control of First American and its courting of drug money. |
| [[Abdus Sami]] | Senior BCCI officer whose January 1978 memo to Abedi set out the nominee scheme for Financial General Bankshares. |
| [[Abu Dhabi Investment Authority]] | Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment institution, a BCCI shareholder from 1980. |
| [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] | Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank. |
| [[Amjad Awan]] | Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. |
| [[Arif Durrani]] | Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran. |
| [[Asaf Ali]] | Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI. |
| [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report]] | The December 1992 Senate report "The BCCI Affair." |
| [[Bert Lance]] | Lance gained prominence as Jimmy Carter's budget director but later resigned due to a congressional investigation into financial improprieties. |
| [[Bingham Report]] | Lord Justice Bingham's 1992 inquiry into the Bank of England's supervision of BCCI. |
| [[Capcom]] | BCCI's London and Chicago commodities affiliate, used for treasury losses and money laundering, including Noriega's. |
| [[Charles Saphos]] | Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department. |
| [[Clark Clifford]] | Clark Clifford was a prominent American attorney and government official who advised Democratic presidents since Truman. |
| [[Credit and Commerce American Holdings]] | Netherlands Antilles holding company through which BCCI's nominees held First American. |
| [[David L. Paul]] | Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments. |
| [[Donald Regan]] | Donald Regan served as the Treasury Secretary during the Reagan Administration. |
| [[Douglas Mulholland]] | Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department. |
| [[Eddie George]] | Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. |
| [[Eugene Holley]] | Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi. |
| [[Faisal Saud al-Fulaij]] | Kuwaiti BCCI nominee shareholder in the First American takeover, indicted in New York in 1992. |
| [[Gerald Lewis]] | Gerald Lewis was the Florida state comptroller who refused to renew BCCI's license to operate in the state after the 1990 Tampa money-laundering conviction. |
| [[Ghaith R. Pharaon]] | Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC). |
| [[Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui]] | Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui was the Head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department and a BCCI board member. |
| [[Ghassan Qassem]] | Manager of BCCI's Sloane Street branch who reported on Abu Nidal's accounts to British and American intelligence. |
| [[Gokal brothers]] | The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company. |
| [[Gulf Group]] | The Gokal brothers' shipping group, BCCI's largest borrower. |
| [[Hank Brown]] | Senator from Colorado, ranking member of the Kerry subcommittee and co-author of its BCCI report. |
| [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] | Chairman of the House Banking Committee, which held BCCI hearings in 1991. |
| [[ICIC]] | BCCI's Cayman "bank within a bank," code-named "Fork" in the Sandstorm Report. |
| [[Jack Blum]] | Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking. |
| [[James Callaghan]] | James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI. |
| [[James Dougherty]] | James Dougherty was a Florida lawyer for Lloyd's of London who investigated Munther Ismael Bilheisi and the BCCI. |
| [[John Kerry]] | Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed. |
| [[Joseph E. Vaez]] | In February 1978, Vaez submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control. |
| [[Kamal Adham]] | Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal. |
| [[Kerry Committee]] | The Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee under John Kerry that investigated BCCI from 1988 to 1992. |
| [[Khalfan al-Mazrui]] | Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department. |
| [[Masihur Rahman]] | Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI. |
| [[Mohammed Hammoud]] | Lebanese BCCI front man who bought Clifford and Altman's First American stock and was reported dead in 1990. |
| [[Munther Ismael Bilheisi]] | Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks. |
| [[Nazir Chinoy]] | BCCI's general manager in Paris, a Tampa defendant, who described Khashoggi's Iran arms financing. |
| [[Operation C-Chase]] | United States Customs sting of 1986-88 that led to BCCI's 1990 money laundering conviction in Tampa. |
| [[Price Waterhouse]] | BCCI's auditors, authors of the 1991 Sandstorm Report. |
| [[Richard Brenneke]] | October Surprise source who provided BCCI and Iran-Contra documents to Danny Casolaro through Bob Bickel. |
| [[Richard J. Kerr]] | Acting Director of Central Intelligence who testified before Senator John Kerry's subcommittee on October 25, 1991, that CIA use of BCCI was "limited and routine." |
| [[Robert Altman]] | Robert Altman was a prominent American lawyer and banker, known for his close association with Clark Clifford and his involvement in the BCCI scandal. |
| [[Robert Mazur]] | Customs agent who, as "Robert Musella," was the undercover operative of Operation C-Chase. |
| [[Robert Morgenthau]] | Robert Morgenthau was the Manhattan district attorney known for his integrity and persistence in exposing government and business corruption. |
| [[Robert Mueller]] | Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. |
| [[Robin Leigh-Pemberton]] | Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England. |
| [[Roy P. M. Carlson]] | Carlson was a key figure in the early relationship between Bank of America and BCCI. |
| [[Sami Masri]] | Sami Masri was a BCCI operative. |
| [[Sandstorm Report]] | Price Waterhouse's June 1991 Section 41 report that preceded BCCI's closure. |
| [[Sani Ahmed]] | Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C. |
| [[Serious Fraud Office]] | British prosecutor of BCCI's treasury chief Akbar (1993) and debtor Abbas Gokal (1997). |
| [[Swaleh Naqvi]] | Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack. |
| [[Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar]] | Head of BCCI's treasury and creator of Capcom, whose 1993 guilty plea was the first conviction arising from the collapse. |
| [[Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England]] | Twelve-year suit by BCCI's liquidators against the Bank of England, abandoned in 2005. |
| [[William Ryback]] | William Ryback was the Deputy Director of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve. |
| [[William von Raab]] | United States Commissioner of Customs, told by his officials in 1988 that BCCI officers were indictable under RICO. |
| [[Zafar Iqbal]] | Zafar Iqbal took over as head of BCCI in late 1990, after the firing of Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi. |
| [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan]] | Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan was the Head of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and president of the United Arab Emirates. |