Word: dhabi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's just from the U.S. military. Though no contracts have been signed yet, Omnitech's exhibits at defense fairs in Bangkok and Abu Dhabi attracted Thai and Qatar representatives, who have opened active negotiations. In Canada and Norway the company has been invited to bid on outfitting vehicles with mine-clearing machinery. In Japan, Omnitech is angling to join a consortium that hopes to undertake a cleanup of unexploded World War II ordnance in China. For countries that need to clear minefields but lack the money to buy Omnitech's kits, which cost $125,000 to $150,000, Parish...
...Dhabi court convicted 12 former top executives of the collapsed Bank of Credit & Commerce International on criminal charges of fraud and mismanagement in one of the world's largest financial scandals. The three key defendants, though, were convicted in absentia: Agha Hassan Abedi, the B.C.C.I. founder; Mohamed Saleh Naqvi, the empire's former chief executive; and Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the bank's former treasurer. The court also ordered the group of 12 to pay $9.13 billion in restitution to Abu Dhabi's government and ruling family, which held a 77.4% stake in B.C.C.I...
...secret trial in Abu Dhabi ended with jail terms-- and a $9.13 billion bill--for 12 key figures in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal. But the bank's two senior officers, who handled huge sums of the emir's fortune until investigators closed the fraudulent operation in 1991, weren't present to help pay up. One of them, 71-year-old founder Aga Hasan Abedi, is now ensconced in his native Pakistan, on good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says...
...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...
...Kantor, which represents Japan's NEC Corp., United Airlines and the National Cable Television Association. Democratic Party chairman Ron Brown is an "inactive" but still salaried partner in the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs & Blow, which represents more than 100 companies, governments and other clients, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority...