Hossein Sabet

Hossein Sabet Baktash ( born 1950 in Mashhad ) is an Iranian businessman with main residence in Berlin. He is the owner of Sabet International Trading Co.

Life

Sabet came in the late 1960s to study engineering in Germany. In Berlin, he founded a trading company that became the largest importer of oriental rugs. 1980/81 he made ​​headlines with the trial, the Berlin evening paper, the Evening to develop into a left - liberal alternative to the Tagesspiegel.

In 1984, he was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion. The charges related to the bankruptcy of the " evening ", however, were left all falling.

With a hotel group and other property in the Canary Islands, he built his fortune further. In the 1990s he started an investment program on the Iranian holiday island of Kish, where he Koroush with the hotel, which is to be opened in October 2009, now seven hotels and an amusement park are.