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- <text id=91TT2165>
- <title>
- Sep. 30, 1991: Business Notes:Scandals
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 52
- Business Notes
- SCANDALS
- Catch Me If You Can
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- <p> Where was Ghaith Pharaon? U.S. authorities hunted for the
- globe-trotting Saudi financier last week after the Federal
- Reserve Board sought to fine him $37 million for serving as a
- front man for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce
- International. According to the Fed, Pharaon secretly used
- B.C.C.I. funds in 1985 to acquire Independence Bank of Encino,
- Calif., for about $23 million. To assure collection of the fine,
- a federal court froze Pharaon's U.S. assets, which ranged from
- a controlling interest in Ameri can Southern Insurance Co. to
- an 1,800-acre estate near Savannah.
- </p>
- <p> Investigators are also probing allegations that Pharaon
- used B.C.C.I. funds to acquire the National Bank of Georgia for
- $18 million in 1978 and to invest $25 million in Miami's
- CenTrust Savings, which collapsed last year. Pharaon, whom the
- Federal Reserve wants to bar from U.S. banking, has denied any
- wrongdoing. But as authorities tried to serve him with a
- subpoena last week, he was believed to be sailing off the coast
- of Greece.
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