text: A property company, Gomba Holdings, owned by Ugandan Asian businessman Abdul Shamji and his family (which claimed to have interests in the Garrick Theatre and Wembley Stadium and were to become involved in protracted litigation by attempting, unsuccessfully, to sue the Bank of England over the failed bank BCCI, which regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom found to be involved in money laundering, bribery and support of terrorism), bought the theatre in the mid-1980s in the hope of developing the Puddle Dock site.