#OctopiNetwork
2 entries tagged OctopiNetwork.
People (1)
- Khalid bin Mahfouz Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009) was a Saudi billionaire banker who owned approximately 20% of BCCI, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in July 1992 on charges of defrauding BCCI depositors of $300 million, settled all charges for $225 million in December 1993, and was named in a May 1985 Department of Justice document as the intended recipient of espionage-modified PROMIS software brokered by Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage.
Organizations (1)
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a Pakistani-founded offshore bank that operated across 78 countries before its 1991 collapse exposed a decade-long conspiracy involving money laundering for drug cartels and intelligence agencies, illegal acquisition of U.S. banks, bribery, fraud, and arms trafficking, in what regulators called the largest bank fraud in history.