The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and Documentation

In memoriam David Whitby

A. Block (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5731-0 (ISBN)

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face. As myoid boss when I joined the discout market - who had worked as a "bond-salesman" on Wall Street during the "Great Crash" of 1929, through the Credit Anstalt crash, and served in British military intelligence during the Second World War - always used to say: "Remember! The telephone is not a secure instrument. " During the 1960s, foreign banks had flooded into London in pursuit of Eurodollar deposits. Arabs were spending their new found oil wealth in West End casinos. Ex change Control regulations were tight. In 1971, when our story begins, new "banks" on the fringe took advantage of the property boom, fuelled by Tory Chancellor Barber's first Budget. The discount houses (whose functions and special privileges at the Bank were soon arcane) became active traders in US dollar and foreign currency paper, and took stakes in the new money brokers (or "barrow boys," as the snobs called them, since the sharpest brokers were mainly Cockney Eastenders). While the "gentleman's club" was quickly being replaced by the fast growing "interbank swaps" market (now LIFFE), the discount houses had found a new role to pla- opening representative offices overseas (Gillett Brothers, where I was then chairman, in Southern Africa, UAE, Australia and Singapore, with brokering subsidiaries in Europe, Far East, and North America) - gathering market intelligence around the world, as the invisible "eyes and ears" of the Bank of England.

— Dedicated to David Whitby.- The Tennessee Bankers.- Conspiracy and cover-up.- Price Waterhouse: Summons before the Civil Court, Luxembourg.- Overseeing and overlooking: The US federal authorities’ response to money laundering and other misconduct at BCCI.

Zusatzinfo	IV, 176 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	90-481-5731-5 / 9048157315
ISBN-13	978-90-481-5731-0 / 9789048157310
Zustand	Neuware