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Funds of BCCI Dhaka, Ctg branches seized, forfeited

Star Economic Report
Funds totalling over 3.5 million US dollar belonging to the Dhaka and Chittagong branches of the now defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCC1) and placed with a US Bank have been seized and forfeited.
The move has been made under the Order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with the notice served on the defunct BCCI on July 29. 1992 but just published in the International media as a legal notice.
According to information available here, foreign exchange deposits of 3,155,691.38 US dollar of BCCI's Dhaka branch and 398.724.15 US dollar of Chittagong branch were placed In USA with the Bank of California Corp.
In the legal notice, published in the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday, BCCI Holdings (Luxembourg). S A Bank of Credit and
Commerce Internationa) S A. Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Limited and International Credit and Investment Company (Overseas) Limited were named as the defendants.
The notice listed the names of 29 firms and financial institutions. including BCCI branches in Dhaka and Chittagong as having accounts with 13 US financial institutions and announced the court order-' "condemning and forfeiting" a total of over 140 million US dollar to the United States of America.
"The order of forfeiture having been entered, the United States hereby gives notice of Its intention to dispose of each of the forfeited properties In such a manner as the Attorney General of the United States may direct, consistent with the plea agreement entered Into by the defendants and the United States on Decembei* 19, 1991," the legal notice
said.
It advised any persons of entities having or claiming a legal right, title or interest In any of the listed accounts, to file a petition with the US District Court for the District of Columbia within 30 days of the publication of the notice.
When contacted, officials of Eastern Bank Limited, the new bank BCCI Bangladesh, told The Daily Star that they, received a (copy of the court order earlier this month.
They said that the issue was refered to Bangladesh Bank authorities who are dealing with the legal aspects of the failed BCCI operations in Bangladesh for necessary measures.
Earlier, in January this year when the accounts of the BCCI's Chittagong and Dhaka branches with the American Express in New York were forfeited, Bangladesh Bank took up the issue and appointed a lawyer, through our embassy in Washington.