#UAE

Places (3)

• Abu Dhabi Capital of the United Arab Emirates and home emirate of Sheikh Zayed, whose government and ruling family owned 77 percent of BCCI when regulators closed it in July 1991.
• Dubai Trading emirate of the United Arab Emirates whose ruling family was among BCCI's ostensible Arab owners, and through which a 1985 BCCI-backed TOW missile deal with Iran was channeled.
• United Arab Emirates Gulf federation formed on December 2, 1971, whose president Sheikh Zayed and Abu Dhabi government held 77 percent of BCCI at its closure and kept its top officers out of foreign investigators' reach.