Legal Opinion
BCCI Holdings (Luxembourg) Societe Anon. v. Khalil
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 23, 1999No. Civ.A. 95-1252(JHG)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.
In July 1991, banking regulators around the world seized the corporations collectively known as the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (“BCCI”), uncovering the largest international bank failure in history. Eight years later, the effort to determine how the BCCI debacle happened and who is responsible for the fraud remains ongoing. This lawsuit, brought by the court-appointed Liquidators of the BCCI Group emerged out of that process. 1
The defendants are two individuals, Abdul Raouf Hasan Khalil (“Khalil”) and Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar…
2Cases cited92 opinions
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- Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Schmuck v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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