Bank of credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank that was in the year 1972 by Agha Hassan Abdi Pakistani businessman in London was established. In the best working condition, the bank has 400 branches in 78 countries of the world. The bank, also with a capital of 20 billion USD, the seventh Bank of the world in terms of the amount of capital.

BCCI in 1991, due to the disclosure of the highest violations of the financial world worth $ 20 billion about a lot of media attention. Inspectors in Britain and the United States of America violations, including money laundering, etc. bribery, support of terrorism, trafficking of arms, selling nuclear technology, etc. of tax evasion and human trafficking, in a study of the function of the company'. In 1990 the bank under the control of the Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Amir of the time, Abu Dhabi was ranked. In 1994, a member of the history of the board of Directors of the bank to charges of fraud to 8 years in prison was sentenced.