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- <text id=91TT2619>
- <title>
- Nov. 25, 1991: Business Notes:Banking
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 70
- Business Notes
- BANKING
- Hunt for the B.C.C.I. Bunch
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- <p> Ever since the scandal at the Bank of Credit & Commerce
- International broke last spring, the Justice Department has been
- taking heat for its less than dynamic prosecution. But last week
- the department indicted B.C.C.I. and three bank officials,
- charging them with illegally taking over Independence Bank of
- Encino, Calif., and with fraud that contributed to the
- billion-dollar downfall of Florida's CenTrust thrift. Indicted
- with the bank were founder Agha Hasan Abedi, former bank
- president Swaleh Naqvi and B.C.C.I. front man Ghaith Pharaon.
- Since the U.S. stands little chance of extraditing Abedi from
- Pakistan and Naqvi faces charges in Abu Dhabi, Pharaon's
- indictment may be the most productive of the three. The Saudi
- national is believed to be holed up in Europe or Latin America.
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- </body></article>
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