About Agha Hassan Abedi

[Toramana]

http://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/03hist.htm

BCCI's conception, growth, collapse, and criminality are inextricably linked with the personality of its founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, who in turn was a product of the unique conditions of Muslim India in the final period of British rule prior to partition, and the first years after partition.

These were years of fundamental change in the region, involving the creation of an entire new ruling class in both Hindu and Moslem India to replace the departing British foreign service. While the period created special opportunities for a newly-emerging professional class in both countries, Abedi and many of the others who later became prominent in Pakistani banking made up a special class. In India, they had grown up as members of a minority, of ineradicably lower status than similarly educated Hindus, despite their university educations. Following partition, these Indian Moslems migrated northward to the new Muslim state of Pakistan, but remained forever regarded as outsiders by the natives. Accordingly, as they settled in the newly-developing cities, such as Karachi and Lahore, they formed a clannish class of Muslim professionals who kept themselves apart from other Pa

http://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/03hist.htm

[Toramana]

"After installing Sheikh Zayed, British officialdom had failed to pay attention to his desire to be taken seriously as an important world political leader. By contrast, Abedi viewed Sheikh Zayed to be a potentially important resource. By one account, the relationship began when Abedi made the decision to fly to Abu Dhabi in 1966 to solicit the right of the United Bank to take deposits from the thousands of Pakistani workers assisting in its modernization. Travelling with one assistant and bringing an oriental rug as a gesture of goodwill, Abedi secured Sheikh Zayed's permission for the United Bank to open a branch in Abu Dhabi.(16) By a second account, Abedi beat out the Habib Bank for taking care of arrangements for Sheikh Zayed's first bustard hunting and falconry vacation in Pakistan, personally waiting patiently outside the Pakistani government guest house while the Sheikh napped, and securing the right to handle the Sheikh's logistics when he awoke.(17)"

[Toramana]

And here is the evidence.

"Along with the construction of palaces and vacation homes, BCCI handled private matters for the visiting Al-Nahayans, including the procurement of Pakistani prostitutes for the male members of the family. These were typically teenage girls, known as "singing and dancing girls," and selected, outfitted and trained by a woman named Begim Hashari Rahim, who later was promoted to the official position of Interior Decorator to the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi.(34)"

[BarakzaiAbdali]

I have to say, I have never heard of this bank or issue. I dissected Toramana's source and things seem air tight at this point. The Kerry Committee of the US Congress wrote the report from the FAS website and the commentary all leads back to a certain Nazir Chinoy. There is corroborating evidence from other sources that Chinoy would have been the man in the know for such operations.

[Toramana]

Here is another murkey detail related to BCCI. When you read it you think the world is filled with conspiracy, treachery, and deception. There are powerful people in the world that consider the rest as pawns to hatch conspiracies over. Read about Adnan Kheshogi, Kamal Adham, etc.

BCCI, THE CIA AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

Introduction

The relationships involving BCCI, the CIA, and members of the United States and foreign intelligence communities have been among the most perplexing aspects of understanding the rise and fall of BCCI. The CIA's and BCCI's mutual environments of secrecy have been one obvious obstacle. For many months, the CIA resisted providing information to the Subcommittee about its involvement with and knowledge of BCCI. Moreover, key players who might explain these relationships are unavailable. Some, including former CIA director William Casey, and BCCI customers and Iranian arms dealers Ben Banerjee and Cyrus Hashemi, are dead. Others, including most of BCCI's key insiders, remain held incommunicado in Abu Dhabi. While promising in public hearings to provide full cooperation to the Subcommittee, to date the Abu Dhabi government has refused to make any BCCI officers available for interview by the Subcommittee. Former BCCI chairman Agha Hasan Abedi remains severely incapacitated due to a heart attack. Finally, some persons in a position to know portions of the truth have denied having any memory of events in which they participated and of documents which they reviewed.

A baseline for assessing the BCCI-CIA story is the CIA's official record of its use of BCCI and its targeting of the bank, as set forth in several hundred CIA records created from 1982 through 1992. That record was, by and large, accurately represented by CIA acting director Richard Kerr in public testimony on October 25, 1991, supplemented by more detailed, classified testimony on October 31, 1991. Unfortunately, that record also contains ostensible gaps in knowledge on the part of the CIA about the activities of key contacts in the Middle East for U.S. intelligence -- including BCCI shareholders Kamal Adham and Abdul Raouf Khalil, and BCCI customer and Iran/Contra arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi -- which strain belief. ............

http://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

[Toramana]

On page 59.

Prostitution

BCCI's involvement in prostitution arose out of its creation of its special
protocol department in Pakistan to service the personal requirements of the Al-
Nahyan family of Abu Dhabi, and on an as-needed basis, other BCCI VIPs, including
the families of other Middle Eastern rulers.

Several BCCI officers described the protocol department's handling of prostitution
to Senate investigators in private, and two -- Abdur Sakhia and Nazir Chinoy --
confirmed their general knowledge of the practice in testimony.

The prostitution handled by BCCI was carried over from practices originally
instituted by Abedi at the United Bank, when working with a woman, Begum Asghari
Rahim, he cemented his relationship with the Al-Nahyan family through providing
them with Pakistani prostitutes.

Among BCCI bank officials in Pakistan, Begum Rahim was reputed to have in United
Bank first won the favors or attention of the royal family by arranging to get
virgin women from the villages from the ages of 16 to 20. Rahim would make payments
to their families, take the teenaged girls into the cities, and there taught them
how to dress and how to act, including the correct mannerisms. The women would be
then brought to the Abu Dhabi princes. For years, Rahim would take 50-60 of these
girls at a time to large department stores in Lahore and Karachi to get them
outfitted for clothes. Given the size of Rahim's retinue and her spending habits --
$100,000 at a time was not unusual when she was engaged in outfitting her charges
-- her activities became notorious in the Pakistani community generally, and there
was substantial competition among clothiers and jewelers for her business.(73)

According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI's activities,
some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided some
members of the Al-Nahyan family were young girls who had not yet reached puberty,
and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said
that former BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to homosexual
VIPs.(74)

http://crashrecovery.org/wackenhut/wackenhut6.pdf

[Toramana]

Kamal Adham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Adham

Adnan Kheshogi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi

[Toramana]

Interesting information about the different the different characters involved in BCCI affair although the account contains an imperial arrogance of its own. For our secular brother Barakzai Abdali Khan.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=6mJmvUl6UCwC&pg=PT129&lpg=PT129&dq=nazir+chinoy&source=bl&ots=pHhdtkX2O1&sig=Ea_2-s8d75OV2rWVS_8o0IlPdQM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tqjOU9XYDMGpyATNvILoDQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=nazir%20chinoy&f=false