„Regardless of what might be shown in the missing material, the remainder is more than adequate to document BCCI's criminality, including fraud by BCCI and BCCI customers involving billions of dollars; money laundering in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the America; BCCI's bribery of officials in most of those locations; its support of terrorism, arms trafficking, and the sale of nuclear technologies; its management of prostitution; its commission and facilitation of income tax evasion, smuggling, and illegal immigration; its illicit purchases of banks and real estate; and a panoply of financial crimes limited only by the imagination of its officers and customers.“ Chapter 4 von Kerry 1992
Zitat: “BCCI was not an ordinary bank. It was set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs are extraordinarily complex. Its offers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.” Chapter 4 of Kerry 1992
Zitat „Unfortunately, the relationship with Bank of America had become an obstacle to such a move for BCCI. Rather than see BCCI expand into its home base, Bank of America was increasingly uncomfortable with its partner. Despite its initial agreement to let BCCI be BCCI, Abedi’s original U.S. partner, Bank of America, had found itself bewildered by many BCCI practices from the beginning.“ Kapitel 3 des Kerry-Berichts 1992
vgl. 12. März 1990, His Personal Piggy Bank, online unter Time.com
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David Sirota, Jonathan Baskin, Follow the Money How John Kerry busted the terrorists’ favorite bank, September 2004, online unter The Washington Monthly (Memento vom 11. September 2004 im Internet Archive)