The Tennessee bankers
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This article discusses research conducted regarding the corrupt activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The author focuses on the Union Planters National Bank of Memphis, Tennessee, their long history of corruption, their relationship with the Arab shareholders, and his own attempts to link their activities with the BCCI.
Publication Name: Crime, Law and Social Change
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0925-4994
Year: 2001
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Conspiracy and cover-up
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This article discusses the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and their involvement with arms sales to Iran and Iraq. The author, focusing on the United Kingdom's banking industry, discusses the manner in which the BCCI attempted to cover-up the fact that they financed the arm sales.
Publication Name: Crime, Law and Social Change
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0925-4994
Year: 2001
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Overseeing and overlooking: The US federal authorities' response to money laundering and other misconduct of BCCI
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This article discusses federal responses to the massive financial fraud committed by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The authors argue that federal agencies whose duties are to oversee financial institutions are largely ineffective due to certain legal restraints and amount of influence the financial industry has over government, and maintain criminal activity at the level of the BCCI scandal can occur again.
Publication Name: Crime, Law and Social Change
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0925-4994
Year: 2001
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