Agha Hasan Abedi

Banker, Organization founder

1922 – 1995

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Who was Agha Hasan Abedi?

Agha Hasan Abedi also known as Agha Sahab was a banker and philanthropist who founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1972. BCCI was at one point the seventh largest private bank in the world, but it collapsed in 1991 after regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom found it was involved in a money laundering scandal. Mr. Abedi underwent a heart transplant operation in 1988, and died of a heart attack on August 5, 1995 in Karachi.

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Born
May 14, 1922
Lucknow
Nationality
  • Pakistan
  • India
Profession
Employment
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Lived in
  • Lucknow
Died
Aug 5, 1995

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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