#Bank

Organizations (7)

• Banco Ambrosiano Banco Ambrosiano was Italy's largest private bank, founded in Milan in 1896, whose chairman Roberto Calvi used a network of Vatican Bank-guaranteed offshore shell companies to export $1.3 billion from the bank before its June 1982 collapse - the largest bank failure in Italian history - which coincided with Calvi's death under London's Blackfriars Bridge.
• CenTrust Savings Bank CenTrust Savings Bank was a financial institution based in Miami, owned by David L. Paul.[^1]
• Chelsea National Bank Chelsea National Bank was a financial institution that Bank of Credit and Commerce International attempted to acquire in 1975, using Abbas Gokal as a front.[^1] Regulators rejected the bid due to concerns about BCCI's involvement.[^1]
• First American Bank First American Bank was a bank based in Washington, D.C., which became secretly owned and controlled by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1]
• Independence Bank of Encino Independence Bank of Encino was a financial institution illegally acquired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1]
• National Bank of Georgia National Bank of Georgia was a financial institution that became entangled in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal.[^1]
• Vatican Bank The Vatican Bank (Instituto per le Opere di Religione, IOR) is the Holy See's financial institution, whose sovereign immunity from Italian banking regulation made it a vehicle for the P2-connected financial operations of Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, resulting in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse and a $244 million settlement with international creditors in 1984.