Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 40

3-Oct-2011

Bahrain

Unicorn Claims Former CEO Committed Criminal Offences

Bahrain-based Unicorn Investment Bank (UIB) claims that its former CEO, Majid al-Rifai, has committed criminal offences. It alleges, citing an investigation by advisory firm Deloitte, that he committed 58 criminal offences at Unicorn including personally appropriating and squandering bank funds, shredding and destroying over 8,000 bank documents, and deliberately preventing the...