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U.K. Professor Wins Five-Year Court Battle for Confidential BCCI Documents

By Brian Monroe

New names of individuals and nations tied to a collapsed Pakistani bank could be published after a U.K. court ruled that redacted portions of an audit on the institution shouldn't be confidential. The U.K.'s First-tier Tribunal said July 12 that publishing redacted appendices of a 1991 report detailing fraud at the now defunct Bank of Credit and Commercial International (BCCI) did not constitute a violation of data security laws and would be "in the public interest." The Luxembourg-based bank closed in 1991 after it was shown to be heavily involved in money laundering and fraud. The full version of the...

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