#FinancialGeneral

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Abdus Sami Senior BCCI officer from the bank's founding whose January 1978 memo to Abedi set out the nominee scheme for taking over Financial General Bankshares and recorded Clark Clifford's blessing.
Eugene Metzger Washington lawyer and Financial General shareholder whom a federal court found in 1981 to have breached his duties as the company's counsel during the BCCI takeover fight; the judgment was vacated in 1982.
Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Son of Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi in whose name BCCI bought Financial General Bankshares stock in 1978; auditors later cited evidence that its four such shareholders concealed BCCI's role.

Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement Arab-owned Paris consortium bank sharing directors with BCCI, which lent 50 million dollars for the 1982 Financial General takeover and passed BCCI money to Ghaith Pharaon for Independence Bank.