VOL. XXXVI

NO. 42

19-JULY-1993

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Abu Dhabi To Put 13 Former BCCI Officials On Trial

Thirteen former officials of BCCI are to be put on trial in Abu Dhabi chargedwith forgery of documents, concealing the true state of the bank's finances andapproving false loans. The 13 include the bank's founder, Mr. Agha Hasan Abedi,and its former Chief Executive, Mr. Swaleh Naqvi, who are also charged withmisappropriating funds from the private portfolios of the ruler of...