WASHINGTON — U.S. officials settled a legal battle with Abu Dhabi on Saturday when the Persian Gulf state's royal family agreed to give up claims to $400 million invested in First American Bankshares Inc., a U.S. bank illegally owned by the scandal-ridden Bank of Credit & Commerce International.
Sources said the agreement gives investigators access to a key figure in the scandal: Swaleh Naqvi, the chief deputy to BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi.
