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- THE WEEK, Page 18BUSINESSLong Arm of The Law
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- A top Saudi banker is indicted in the still simmering B.C.C.I.
- scandal
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- The message from New York District Attorney Robert
- Morgenthau, still in pursuit of culprits in the Bank of Credit &
- Commerce International scandal, was broadly aimed. "No
- participant in the B.C.C.I. scheme, here or abroad, however
- influential, should expect to escape justice," declared
- Morgenthau. The D.A. then made good on his threat by delivering a
- grand jury indictment of billionaire Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz,
- CEO of the National Commercial Bank, the largest commercial bank
- in Saudi Arabia, and a financial adviser to the Saudi royal
- family, on charges of fraud. Other targets of a criminal grand
- jury led by Morgenthau include intimates of the royal families of
- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic. Mahfouz, a principal
- shareholder in B.C.C.I., was charged with involvement in a
- billion-dollar scheme to defraud investors and deceive U.S.
- banking regulators. His bank is suspected of participating in
- B.C.C.I.'s financial manipulations that led to the disappearance
- of more than $10 billion. The sheik, however, claims that he
- actually lost vast amounts of money through B.C.C.I. and was thus
- himself a victim. Through a spokesman, he professed astonishment
- at the charges.
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