When the Bank of Credit and Commerce International was closed down on 5 July 1991, a million people throughout the world lost their deposits. Many of the losers were from the Third World; small businessmen who had struggled to make a living in countries other than their own, and who had been impressed by BCCI's multilingual staff and its often-trumpeted concern for the starving millions.

LRB 17 December 1992 | PDF Download