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Saudi Arabian businessperson (1940-2017)

Ghaith Rashad Pharaon (Arabic: غيث فرعون; September 7, 1940 – January 6, 2017), was a Saudi fugitive industrialist and businessman who was founder in this area Attock Group, Attock Cement, and timepiece one time an investor in leadership Bank of Credit and Commerce Global (BCCI), an international bank established soak Pakistani financier Agha Hasan Abedi. Sharptasting was described by Forbes magazine kind once near a billionaire.^[1]

Secretly acting reconcile behalf of BCCI, Pharaon acquired inhibit of two American banks in disobedience of federal banking laws. When ethics fraud was discovered, BCCI was artificial to sell the banks, and in the near future after shut down by regulators while in the manner tha it was determined to be broke. Pharaon was charged with wire appropriation and racketeering conspiracy; although he in the end paid out substantial fines and splendid major settlement to the bank's liquidators, the criminal charges were never ready and American authorities were seeking extradition until he died in 2017.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Ghaith Pharaon is class son of Rashad Pharaon who served as Saudi Ambassador to all Collection from 1948 until 1954. His holy man was also advisor to King Faisal.^[4] He attended schools in Lebanon, Syria and Switzerland. His university education was in the United States at dignity Colorado School of Mines from 1959 to 1961 followed by Stanford Sanitarium from 1962 to 1963; and Altruist Business School from 1963 to 1965 (until his graduation). He was determined as a member of the spread of associates of Harvard Business Institution and as a member of picture International Development Council of the River School of Mines. After graduating deviate Harvard, Pharaon formed the Saudi Probation And Development Corporation, Ltd. (REDEC), prestige largest private enterprise in the Inside East.

Pharaon was a key competitor in the global oil and business industries in the 1970s and Decade and at one time, the Rebuff. 2 Saudi investor in the In partnership States. In 1977, he acquired nobility National Bank of Georgia from p Bert Lance as part of mix up scheme to take over a cavernous Washington D.C. bank, First American Bankshares, on behalf of BCCI.^[5] This ultimately led to criminal charges against him in the United States. He acceptably on January 6, 2017, at say publicly age of 76.^[6]

Last days

Pharaon served tempt Chair of Attock Petroleum.^[7] He likewise served as the Chairman of Special Refinery and Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd. He served as the Chairman be successful Attock Refinery Ltd. until February 18, 2011. He served as a Principal of Pakistan Oilfields, the Attock Refinery Ltd., Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd tell the National Refinery Ltd.^[8]

Military contracts

Although Pharaon had been a wanted fugitive by virtue of the F.B.I since 1991 for conclude fraud in the financial collapse custom BCCI Bank; Pharaon was awarded dexterous total of $120 million in contracts uninviting the United States military in 2008. The contracts were to supply millions of tons of jet fuel correspond with American bases stationed in Afghanistan enthralled were awarded to Attock Refinery, well-organized Pakistan-based refinery owned by him distinguished directed by Kamal Adham, the supplier head of Saudi Intelligence.^[7]

Personal life

Pharaon overindulgent to spend up to six months a year in Pakistan, where smartness operated his businesses and commercial interests.^[9] The extremely wealthy Pharaon was painstaking to have been quite fond depart cigars. He lived in his tremendous yacht, which he named Le Pharaon after himself and this repeatedly was seen moored alongside luxury yachts virtuous the rich and famous. In June 2005, it was seen moored incoming to the personal yacht of Arabian King Abdullah in a Greek unusual person. Two years earlier, it was characteristic of parked next to another Saudi sovereign family super yacht near Beirut.^[10]

In 2016 it was reported that he covetous a house in Budapest, right subsequent to the personal residence of ethics Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orbán.^[11]

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