Dirty Money

Paul Foot

• A Full Service Bank: How BCCI stole millions around the world by James Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz
  Simon and Schuster, 381 pp, £16.99, April 1992, ISBN 0 671 71133 4
• Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud by Nick Kochan and Bob Whittington
  Gollancz, 234 pp, £4.99, November 1991, ISBN 0 575 05279 1
• The BCCI Affair: A Report to The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown
  US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 800 pp, September 1992, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
• Inquiry into the Supervision of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International by Lord Justice Bingham
  HMSO, 218 pp, £19.30, October 1992, ISBN 0 10 219893 4

When the Bank of Credit and Commerce International was closed down on 5 July 1991, a million people throughout the world lost their deposits. Many of the losers were from the Third World; small businessmen who had struggled to make a living in countries other than their own, and who had been impressed by BCCI’s multilingual staff and its often-trumpeted concern for the starving millions.