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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesBANKINGOur Man in Washington
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- Investigators probing the B.C.C.I. banking scandal got an
- unexpected break last week when FBI agents snared Sani Ahmad,
- the former head of the bank's Washington office. Ahmad, who fled
- to Pakistan after authorities sought him for questioning in
- 1990, had sneaked back into the U.S. to sell his house and is
- now being held without bail as a material witness. He is
- currently being interrogated by the Justice Department and New
- York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's B.C.C.I. team.
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- "Mr. Ahmad's duties as head of B.C.C.I.'s Washington
- office included the bribery of certain government officials,"
- an unnamed informant is quoted as saying in an FBI affidavit.
- This informant identified Ahmad as B.C.C.I.'s coordinator for
- "certain types of industrial espionage" including the "giving
- and receiving of commercial bribes." No charges have been filed
- against Ahmad, but a former bank official told TIME, as well as
- investigators for two grand juries, that Ahmad was connected to
- the bank's "black network" of operatives who used bribery,
- blackmail and sometimes terrorism to further the bank's schemes
- in 73 countries.
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