| 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. |
