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BCCI was created with capital from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, emir of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Bank of America (25%) and, allegedly, the CIA.
The Bank of America was "bewildered" with BCCI and reduced its holding in 1980, and the company came to be held by a number of groups, with ICIC owning 70%.
The BCCI scandal was one of a number of crimes and disasters that influenced thinking leading to the Public Interest Disclosure Act of 1998.
BCCI's operation was not unique among banks in general, but they were a caricature of how things work in that they exceeded normal bank etiquette in such matters.
Another BCCI connection is to the December 1985 crash, in Gander, Newfoundland, of a plane carrying 248 American soldiers.
BCCI reportedly is connected to secret sales of something called "Colombine Heads," apparently the triggering device for these fuel-air bombs.
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