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Two journalists with Time magazine didn’t just report on the BCCI story: they became players in a game of journalistic three-dimensional chess—full of murky leads and shady sources who often were not what they seemed. Through their fast-paced, firsthand account, we are there as Beaty and Gwynne arrange back-channel rendezvous: find a way around government stonewalling; and slowly begin to trace the web of kickbacks, corruption, and cover-ups that spanned three U.S. administrations and ensnared politicians and business figures around the world. The Outlaw Bank shows how the BCCI was more than a bank with a portfolio of bad loans and nasty clients like Manuel Noriega and the Medellin cartel. With offices and agents in every corner of the world, the BCCI had become a clearinghouse for almost anything: political bribes, untraceable cash, guns, tanks—even nuclear weapons. Beaty and Gwynne tell the real BCCI story with all of its amazing detail and mysterious characters. They go inside the mind of Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI's messianic founder, whose vision of a Third World bank became twisted into a financial evil empire that moved effortlessly across national borders. They show how Manhatt

Who reads The outlaw bank : a wild ride into the secret heart of BCCI?

Author

Jonathan Beaty; Samuel C. Gwynne

Publisher

Random House Inc (T)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679413844

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Finance, Economics

Rating

3.8 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14