BCCI

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

BCCI, renamed in 2001 into BBBBCI (Barclays Bank-Bush-Bin Connection International), stands for Bank of Credit and Commerce International. During the late 80s, the BCCI was well known laundering money to and from drug dealers, terrorists, spies and blackmailers and was renowned for having set off the largest banking scandal in world history. BCCI, was founded and directed by many of the same people (allegedly including former CIA director Richard Helms (->) who created Australias's Nugan Hand Bank and then ran into the ground, BCCI went belly-up in the late 1980s (billion of dollars in debt, with $20 billion more that's never been located) and its treasurer was convicted on charges of laundering drug-trafficking money.

In 1986, BCCI started to cooperate with Kissinger Associates (->), which represented at that time Brent Scowcroft (->), Lawrence Eagleburger or and investment bank T. Jefferson Cunningham III. In 1998/99, the Bank of England started to investigate on the BCCI. At the end of this investigation it came out, that BCCI was deeply involved in Pakistan's nuclear program, with Iraqi arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian, syrian terrorist Monzer Al-Kassar, in arms sales to Iran (->Iran-Contra) and contacts with international criminal financier Marc Rich. Furthermore BCCI had extensive activity in China, and the Chinese government allegedly lost $500 million when BCCI closed, mostly from government accounts. One of the largest stockholders of the BCCI was Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz (->), who helped funding George Bush's company Arbusto or the Houston Gulf Airport. Sources: Devon Jackson (Vanity Fair, NY Times, Rolling Stone, Village Voice) Fas.org etc... 

Compare: http://www.copi.com/defrauding_america/chp_23.htm http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/