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Political Figure	Person BCCI	Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi.

Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi.¹ He was the first person prosecuted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for paying bribes in Qatar.²

Legal Issues and BCCI Connections

Holley was convicted of bank fraud in 1980 and sentenced to ten years in jail.³ He had set up a Cayman Islands oil company and accumulated a $17 million debt, from which Abedi bailed him out.⁴

In October 1977, Holley arranged a meeting between Bert Lance and Bank of Credit and Commerce International chieftains Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.⁵

Footnotes

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1. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 9. ↩︎

2. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 179. ↩︎

3. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 179. ↩︎

4. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 179. ↩︎

5. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 180. ↩︎