"Yemeni tycoon Khalid bin Mahfouz established the Middle East Capital Group (MECG) on the tax-haven island in 1996, only to be placed under house arrest in Saudi Arabia three years later.
In the wake of the US Embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Saudi defence minister Prince Sultan that Mahfouz had channelled tens of millions into terrorist accounts in London and New York.
The maverick financier was no stranger to intrigue—he was the principal shareholder in BCCI ("the Bank of Criminals and Cocaine International")—when it perpetrated the biggest fraud in financial history."
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BCCI(Bank of Commerce and Credit International)--The Kerry/Brown Senate report 'buried' during the 'lame duck' Bush 41 session, with last rites by the Clinton Democrats in the Spring of '93.