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The key man : the true story of how the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairy tale / Simon Clark and Will Louch.
Lippincott Library HG5435.5 .C53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Simon, 1975- author.
- Louch, Will, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naqvi, Arif, 1960-.
- Naqvi, Arif.
- Abraaj Group.
- Investment advisors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Investment advisors.
- Swindlers and swindling--Great Britain--Biography.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Investment advisors--Corrupt practices.
- Commercial crimes.
- Corruption.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the\ face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"-- Provided by publisher.
- The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Arif Naqvi was the key man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. He persuaded politicians he could help stabilize the Middle East after 9/11; Bill Gates helped him start a $1 billion fund to improve healthcare in poor countries. In 2018 Clark and Louch were contacted by an anonymous whistleblower who said Naqvi had swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. After their story broke in April 2019 Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering, and faces up to 291 years in jail. Clark and Louch shine a light on how the global elite were duped by a fairy tale. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Boy From Karachi
- ch. 2 A Glittering Oasis
- ch. 3 Now We Rule
- ch. 4 The Great Showman
- ch. 5 Karachi Electric
- ch. 6 Arab Spring
- ch. 7 Impact Investing
- ch. 8 The Cult Of Abraaj
- ch. 9 Turks Will Always Drink Milk
- ch. 10 Cash Crunch
- ch. 11 Dream Weavers
- ch. 12 Healthy Lives
- ch. 13 Breathe, Smile, Say Alhamdullilah, And Proceed
- ch. 14 America First
- ch. 15 Doubling Down
- ch. 16 Peak Abraaj
- ch. 17 Don't Make Nice With A Fraudster
- ch. 18 Keys To The Kingdom
- ch. 19 Flight Risk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Clark, Simon, 1975- Key man.
- ISBN:
- 9780062996213
- 0062996215
- OCLC:
- 1240825633
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