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* [[Abbas Gokal]], and other members of the [[Gokal Family]] of Pakistan. |
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* [[Bert Lance]], [[Clark Clifford]], [[James R. Bath]], via BCCI. |
* [[Bert Lance]], [[Clark Clifford]], [[James R. Bath]], via BCCI. |
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* [[Sergio da Costa]] |
* [[Sergio da Costa]] (former Brazillian ambassador to the U.S.); BCCI front man in Brazil and consultant for [[Kissinger Associates]]. |
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* [[John Connally]] |
* [[John Connally]] |
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* [[George W. Bush]] |
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Revision as of 20:33, 20 November 2006
Ghaith Rashad Pharaon (born September 7, 1940 in Riyadh (or Jeddah) and a citizen of Saudi Arabia) is a prominent Saudi businessman and financier, and was a key player in the global oil and banking industries in the 1970s and 1980s. A continuing subject of interest by the FBI, the Department of Justice, the IRS, the Arma dei Carabinieri and various other investigative agencies, he attained brief notoriety in the U.S. for his having been identified by the Federal Reserve Board as the "frontman" in the BCCI scandal, and for peripheral roles in the Harken Energy, CenTrust and numerous other scandals.
After the events of September 11th, he re-emerged as a subject of public interest, due in part to having been a former classmate of George W. Bush at Harvard Business School, and a prominent investor in Bush's short-lived venture Arbusto Energy. According to a 70-page French parliamentary report released in October of 2002, Pharaon has been identified as a recent player in the informal money- and value-transfering (or hawala) networks of Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden.
Notable affiliations
Business associates
- Roger Tamraz
- Khaled bin Mahfouz
- Sheikh Kamal Adham, head of Saudi intelligence
- Sheikh Abdul Raouf Khalil
- Sheikh Abdullah Taha Bakhsh
- Abbas Gokal, and other members of the Gokal Family of Pakistan.
- Bert Lance, Clark Clifford, James R. Bath, via BCCI.
- Sergio da Costa (former Brazillian ambassador to the U.S.); BCCI front man in Brazil and consultant for Kissinger Associates.
- John Connally
- George W. Bush
Banking affiliations
- BCCI
- Main Bank of Houston
- National Bank of Georgia
- Independence Bank of Encino
- CenTrust Federal Savings Bank of Miami, a "failed sattelite" of BCCI
- Bank of the Commonwealth
- First American Bankshares
Oil industry
- Arbusto Energy, seed investor.
- Occidental Petroleum Company, shareholder.
Other
- Interedec inc, Savannah-based U.S. holding company, established 1983 (along with sister companies in the Netherlands Antilles and in the Bahamas)
- GRP Inc, another Georgia-based holding company, established 1981
Current activities
The extremely wealthy and camera-shy Pharaon is known to be quite fond of cigars, and in recent years has taken a keen interest in speedboat racing. He is said to have a principal residence near the Red Sea and to get around from time to time with the help of his 160-foot super-yacht, Le Pharaon.
External links
- http://www.pharaon.com - defunct personal website
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pharaon.com/ - snapshots of Pharaon's site at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.techmati.com/yachts/pharaon/index.htm - Le Pharaon photoblog at yachtmati.com