Sandstorm report explained

The Sandstorm report is the name of the secret report submitted on June 24, 1991 by financial consultants Price Waterhouse to the Bank of England, showing that the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCI) had engaged in widespread fraud, and that organizations regarded as terrorist groups had maintained several accounts in BCCI in London, with the apparent knowledge of the British and American intelligence community. Sandstorm was Price Waterhouse's codename for BCCI.

As a result of the information contained in the Sandstorm report, the bank was raided and taken over by regulators in seven countries on July 5, 1991. Estimates of financial losses range from $10 billion to $17 billion, though some of it has been recovered by the bank's liquidators, Deloitte & Touche. https://web.archive.org/web/20050207214648/http://www.erisk.com/Learning/CaseStudies/ref_case_bcci.asp

See also

• Agha Hasan Abedi
• Bank of Credit and Commerce International
• Abbas Gokal
• Abu Nidal
• The International (2009 film)

References

• Price Waterhouse . PricewaterhouseCoopers . 24 June 1991 . Report on Sandstorm SA [Part 1] ]. London . . Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs . 10 March 2021 . 21 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210721181938/http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/BCCI%20Sandstorm%20Redacted%20Part%201%20Highlighted.pdf . The UK Government spent 20 years attempting to suppress parts of the document; these are highlighted in red boxes on this copy
• Price Waterhouse . 24 June 1991 . Report on Sandstorm SA [Part 2] ]. London . . Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs . 10 March 2021 . 21 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210721181813/http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/BCCI%20Sandstorm%20Redacted%20Part%202.pdf .
• Kochan, Nick & Whittington, Bob. Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud, London 1991
• Adams, James Ring & Frantz, Douglas. A Full Service Bank, London 1991
• "Case study: Bank of Credit and Commerce International", Erisk, June 2001, (via Internet Archive), retrieved October 1, 2007,
• An incomplete copy of the Sandstorm report(pdf), made available by the Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs, retrieved November 9, 2005
• List of BCCI reports, Association of Accountancy and Business Affairs, retrieved November 9, 2005