The Bank of Credit and Commerce was one of the most criminal financial enterprises ever conceived:
Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Wikipedia
"A decade after opening, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries, and assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world.[2][3]
"BCCI came under the scrutiny of numerous 22 financial regulators and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to concerns that it was poorly regulated.
"Subsequent investigations revealed that it was involved in massive money laundering and other financial crimes, and illegally gained the controlling interest in a major American bank.
"BCCI became the focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991, and, on 5 July of that year, customs and bank regulators in seven countries raided and locked down records of its branch offices."
Criminal History: BCCI, the Bushes … and Mueller
"The Italian bank BNL was one of BCCI’s main tentacles.
"BNL’s Atlanta branch was the primary funnel used to send millions of secret dollars to Saddam for arms purchases, including deadly chemicals and other WMD materials supplied by the Chilean arms dealer Cardoen and various politically-connected operators in the United States like, weapons merchant Matrix Churchill.
"As soon as the BNL case broke, (HW) Bush moved to throttle the investigation.
"He appointed lawyers from both Cardoen and Matrix to top Justice Department posts – where they supervised the officials investigating their old companies.
"The overall probe was directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller.
"Meanwhile, White House aides applied heavy pressure on other prosecutors to restrict the range of the probe – especially the fact that Bush cabinet officials Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger had served as consultants for BNL during their pre-White House days as spear-carriers for yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, and the avid greasing of highly-placed palms: Kissinger Associates.
"The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably 'botched' – witnesses went missing, CIA records got “lost,” all sorts of bad luck. Most of the big BCCI players went unpunished or got off with wrist-slap fines and sanctions."
Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Wikipedia
"A decade after opening, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries, and assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world.[2][3]
"BCCI came under the scrutiny of numerous 22 financial regulators and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to concerns that it was poorly regulated.
"Subsequent investigations revealed that it was involved in massive money laundering and other financial crimes, and illegally gained the controlling interest in a major American bank.
"BCCI became the focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991, and, on 5 July of that year, customs and bank regulators in seven countries raided and locked down records of its branch offices."
Criminal History: BCCI, the Bushes … and Mueller
"The Italian bank BNL was one of BCCI’s main tentacles.
"BNL’s Atlanta branch was the primary funnel used to send millions of secret dollars to Saddam for arms purchases, including deadly chemicals and other WMD materials supplied by the Chilean arms dealer Cardoen and various politically-connected operators in the United States like, weapons merchant Matrix Churchill.
"As soon as the BNL case broke, (HW) Bush moved to throttle the investigation.
"He appointed lawyers from both Cardoen and Matrix to top Justice Department posts – where they supervised the officials investigating their old companies.
"The overall probe was directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller.
"Meanwhile, White House aides applied heavy pressure on other prosecutors to restrict the range of the probe – especially the fact that Bush cabinet officials Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger had served as consultants for BNL during their pre-White House days as spear-carriers for yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, and the avid greasing of highly-placed palms: Kissinger Associates.
"The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably 'botched' – witnesses went missing, CIA records got “lost,” all sorts of bad luck. Most of the big BCCI players went unpunished or got off with wrist-slap fines and sanctions."
