Adnan Khashoggi
Adnan Mohammed Chaschuqdschi (Arabic عدنان محمد خاشقجي, DMG ʿ Adnan Muhammad Ḫāšuqğī, often Khashoggi or Khashoggi, Adnan Turkish Kasikci ) ( born July 25, 1935 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia) is an Arab businessman than in the 1970s, arms dealer was known.
Khashoggi was in the 1980s as an exceptionally wealthy. Its total assets were estimated according to some sources on tens of billions of dollars, but at least four billion U.S. dollars. He made headlines mainly because of his lavish lifestyle.
In 1986, he was accused of having been a mediator in the Iran - Contra affair, Swiss authorities arrested him in 1989 at the request of the U.S., as he is said to have the Philippine dictator Marcos helped in illegal transactions with unterschlagenem state money. On July 2, 1990, a New York court on this charge him acquitted. Since then, he hardly in evidence in the public occurs. His last public appearance was a visit to a business summit in November 1994 in Casablanca.
Education and work
Until 1952 he attended the exclusive Victoria College in Alexandria (Egypt ), where he later Jordan's King Hussein met among others. In 1953 he went to the USA and studied economics for a short time, only three semesters at California State University, Chico, then a semester at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Family
Chaschuqdschi, the name means in Turkish Kasikci, spoon makers ', was born as the eldest son of Mohammed Khalid Chaschuqdschi, one of the personal physicians of the Saudi King Abd al- Aziz ibn Saud. His father came from Turkey. He had come as pilgrims to Mecca in the country and brought it to the Vice - Minister of Health. His sister Samira married the Egyptian Mohamed Al -Fayed, who later became famous through the acquisition of the London department store Harrods. Chaschuqdschi was the uncle of Dodi Al -Fayed, son of Samira and Mohamed Al -Fayed, who died in an accident in Paris along with Princess Diana in 1997.
From his first marriage with his wife Soraya (1961-1974) Chaschuqdschi has a daughter ( Nabila ) and four sons ( Mohammed, Khalid Hussein, Omar ). Through the divorce Soraya received 1982 compensation of 870 million dollars. In 1978 he married the Italian-born Lamia Biancolini. Together they have a son ( Ali ).
Shops
Mid-1950s, he returned to Saudi Arabia and was a businessman. He had his first success in 1956 with the placement of a delivery truck at the Saudi American army. His rise to fame began in 1964 as a general Chaschuqdschi representatives of international brands such as Chrysler, Fiat and Rolls- Royce in Saudi Arabia.
In 1965, he earned at the exchange of arms deals between major American corporations and the emerging Gulf countries. During the 1970s, according to the report of an inquiry committee of the U.S. Senate were 80 percent of all arms deliveries to the United States to Saudi Arabia through his hands. He has represented companies such as Raytheon and Lockheed, but also French and German manufacturers.
His business he controlled by the Luxembourg-registered company Triad Holding Corporation, whose headquarters was in Beirut. His two brothers he took on as a partner. In 1974 he founded the Triad Holding America in Salt Lake City for business in the United States.
Stricter international arms control difficult its business from the 1970s. He then invested in real estate, banking and oil refineries, but many projects failed. 1990 The mirror his assets amounted to only 50 million U.S. dollars.
His social end began with the announcement of his involvement in the Iran - Contra affair. He had stretched out money with which a part of the arms supplied to Iran has been paid. His career as an international businessman finally ended by the accusation that he had helped dictator Ferdinand Marcos in illegal business. She brought him several months in a Swiss prison.
Yachts and real estate
Chaschuqdschis private yacht, named after his daughter Nabila, was 86 meters long, a garage for the Rolls -Royce Phantom V had ( this is now in the possession of the illusionists Lennart Wolff), an on-board helicopters and 40 crew members. The yacht is mentioned in the song Khashoggi 's Ship of the rock band Queen ( on the album The Miracle ). In the James Bond film Never Say Never Again the ship under the name " Flying Saucer " was seen as a yacht of the villain Largo. The Nabila is now owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud and bears the name Kingdom 5KR.
Everywhere in the world and has had Khashoggi estate. Among them, the villa " Mohamedia " were on the Côte d' Azur, a 2,000 -acre estate called " La Baraka " in Marbella and two stories in the Olympic Tower on 5th Avenue in New York.