In 1972, the dirtiest bank in the world was founded in Pakistan, registered in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, and operated from the City of London throughout 70 countries across 400 locations. The purpose of the creation of this bank was to handle the accounting, forgery, and banking needs of the 3,000 gangsters, money launderers, drug lords, arms dealers, human traffickers, and spooks that they considered to be their VIP customers. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was involved in many scandals plaguing the American government during the 1970s and 1980s, from the Iran-Contra & Ollie North drugs for weapons plan to Osama bin Laden’s fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan to the selling of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during his war against Iran. BCCI was a bank by gangsters, for gangsters. At least it was until 1991 when it a ...