BCCI creditors also instituted a $ 1 billion suit against the Bank of England as a regulatory body.

BCCI also acquired parallel banks through acquisitions: buying the Banque de Commerce et Placements ( BCP ) of Geneva in 1976, and creating KIFCO ( Kuwait International Finance Company ), Credit & Finance Corporation Ltd, and a series of Cayman-based companies held together as ICIC ( International Credit and Investment Company Overseas, International Credit and Commerce, etc .).

BCCI was also heavily involved in First American personnel matters.

The audit also confirmed what many Americans who watched BCCI long suspected — that BCCI secretly ( and illegally ) owned First American.

Oliver North also used and held multiple accounts at BCCI.

The CIA also worked with BCCI in arming and financing the Afghan mujahideen during the Afghan War against the Soviet Union, using BCCI to launder proceeds from trafficking heroin grown in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands, boosting the flow of narcotics to European and U. S. markets.

BCCI also established the Cromwell Hospital ( now owned by Bupa ) in London.

He has also hit the longest six of the tournament: off Australian bowler Brett Lee. Yuvraj was awarded a Porsche 911 for his 6 sixes achievement by the Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ), Lalit Modi.

Yuvraj also received Rs. 10, 000, 000 ( US $ 252, 716 ) in cash from the BCCI for his performance in the tournament.

Reports also suggested that he could run for the post of BCCI President in 2014 as East Zone's representative.

It is also dubbed as the Premier Cup by BCCI.

He also asked BCCI to abandon self-interest and " embrace the spirit of cricket and govern in the best interests of world cricket, not just for India and its business partners.

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U. S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

Mohinder Amarnath also served as a selector for the Indian National team but his was cut short early, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ) appointing an all-new selection committee after its Annual General Meeting held in Mumbai on September 27, 2012.

The President of the Mumbai Cricket Association, Sharad Pawar, was also president of the BCCI.

Anthony de Mello, the Secretary of the BCCI from its inception in 1928 until 1937, also served the secretary of CCI from 1933 to 1937.

Formerly known as the Karnataka State Cricket Association ( KSCA ) stadium, the ground was later rechristened in tribute to Mr. M. Chinnaswamy, who had served the KSCA for four decades and was also president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ) from 1977-1980.

He also was awarded the " best fielder award " by the BCCI ahead of the finals.

This two year undercover operation concluded in 1988 with a fake wedding that was attended by BCCI officers and drug dealers from around the world who had established a personal friendship and working relationship with undercover agent Mazur.

Law enforcement in the U. S. established the BCCI as an organized crime syndicate.

He was strongly criticized by the BCCI and former Pakistan team captain Wasim Akram for reportedly calling India a third world country.

BCCI pitch committee member Anand Shukla visited the Green Park stadium today and expressed his satisfaction over the condition of the track where a one-day international cricket match between India and Pakistan would be played on April 15.

One of the large financial institutions that he was able to use to launder money was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) which was shut down at the end of the Cold War by the FBI.

BCCI was among the first foreign banks awarded a license to operate in the Chinese Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen which bore testament to Agha Hasan Abedi's public relations skills, a feat that had yet to be achieved by the likes of Citicorp and JP Morgan.

In 1982, 15 Middle Eastern investors bought Financial General Bankshares, a large bank holding company headquartered in Washington, D. C. All the investors were BCCI clients, but the Fed received assurances that BCCI would be in no way involved in the management of the company, which was renamed First American Bankshares.

BCCI was awaiting final approval for a restructuring plan in which it would have re-emerged as the " Oasis Bank ".

In 2002, Denis Robert and Ernest Backes, former number three of Clearstream, described as a " bank of banks " which practices " financial clearing ", discovered that BCCI had continued to maintain its activities after its official closure, with " microfiches " of Clearstream's illegal unpublished accounts.

In 1992, United States Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown became the co-authors of a report on BCCI, which was delivered to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

* BCCI Corporate Trophy-BCCI have set up a 12 team inter-corporate tournament which will involve all the top Indian cricketers.

Viswanath was awarded Col. C K Naidu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 by BCCI which is one of the highest awards given in Indian cricket.

He and fellow commentator Sunil Gavaskar ended their long-term associations with ESPN-STAR Sports in April 2008 as they were contracted by the BCCI as commentators for the lucrative Indian Premier League which is being broadcast by rival network Sony Max.

After the tour of South Africa, which India drew 1-1 in the Test series lost 3-2 in ODIs, Kirsten announced he would not renew his contract with BCCI because of family commitments.

Jeoomal was the oldest Indian Test cricketer to attend the Golden Jubilee Test in 1980, which marked the fiftieth year of the founding of BCCI.

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier.

BCCI came under the scrutiny of numerous financial regulators and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to concerns that it was poorly regulated.

Abedi was succeeded by Swaleh Naqvi as the bank's chief who, in the aftermath following controversy over BCCI, was replaced by Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry in the late 1990s.

BCCI was created with capital from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Bank of America ( 25 %).

The Guardian alleged that BCCI was using cash from deposits to fund operating expenses, rather than making investments.

On several occasions, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency told the Federal Reserve in no uncertain terms that BCCI must not be allowed to buy any American bank because it was poorly regulated.

By 1980, BCCI was reported to have assets of over $ 4 billion with over 150 branches in 46 countries.

Bank of America was " bewildered " by BCCI and reduced its holding in 1980, and the company came to be held by a number of groups, with ICIC owning 70 %.

Abedi had been approached about buying it as early as 1977, but by this time BCCI's reputation in the United States was so poor that it could not hope to buy an American bank on its own ( as mentioned above, the OCC was adamantly opposed to BCCI being allowed to buy its way into the American banking industry ).

The relationship between the two was so close that rumors spread BCCI was the real owner of First American.

It was later estimated that in this manner, BCCI had ended up with 60 percent or more of First American's stock.

BCCI contended that its growth was fueled by the increasingly large number of deposits by oil-rich states who owned stock in the bank as well as by sovereign developing nations.

BCCI was not squeamish about dealing with disreputable clients.

At the same time he was dealing undercover with BCCI executives, Mazur used his undercover operation to establish a relationship with the hierarchy of the Medellin Cartel as one of their sources for laundering drug proceeds.