#FirstAmerican

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People (5)

Abdur Sakhia BCCI's senior officer in the United States, who left the bank in 1990 and testified to the Senate on its secret control of First American and its courting of drug money.
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.
Faisal Saud al-Fulaij Kuwaiti businessman who served as a BCCI nominee shareholder in the Financial General and First American takeover and was indicted in New York with Clifford, Altman and Abedi in 1992.
Mohammed Hammoud Lebanese money changer who became a BCCI front man and shareholder, bought Clifford and Altman's First American stock, and was reported dead in Geneva in 1990.
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.
Credit and Commerce American Holdings Netherlands Antilles holding company formed by BCCI in 1978 through which nominee shareholders held First American Bankshares, the Washington bank BCCI secretly controlled.