In a case of art imitating life, 'The International' is set in the murky world of international banking and was inspired by the early 1990s collapse of the scandal-plagued Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
The wind-up and rescue of major banks, including Johnson Matthey Bank and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in the Eighties and Nineties, were only achieved over a period of more than ten years.
The 12 essays include personal accounts of other "economic hit men" involved in business, aid, and banking corruption; investigative reports on the activities of the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International, corrupt World Bank development aid practices in the Philippines and elsewhere, manipulation of Iraq's oil laws under the US occupation; and wider contextual pieces documenting the overall workings of so-called debt-relief and the role export credit agencies in encouraging worldwide weapons proliferation.
Officials did not want to know how bad the situation was at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International because they did not want to do anything about it, claimed Gordon Pollock QC.
Officials did not want to know how bad the situation was at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International because they did not want to do anything about it, claimedGordon PollockQC.
