Word: adnan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High above the clouds, at 35,000 ft., Adnan Khashoggi's DC-8 is cruising noiselessly toward his estate in Marbella, Spain. His guests, sipping 1961 Chateau Margaux from crystal goblets with triangular silver bases, lounge on the jet's cream-colored chamois-and-silk banquettes. His masseur, his valet, his barber and his chiropractor -- they accompany him everywhere -- are relaxing as well because "A.K.," as he is known to his employees, is fast asleep on the $200,000 Russian sable spread covering his 10-ft.-wide bed in one of the plane's three bedrooms...
...those who work for him, Adnan Khashoggi is not a constellation but the very center of a mysterious and splendiferous universe. His is a dazzling and ostentatious realm of luxury beyond the dreams of Croesus, a shadowy sphere of deals, arms brokering and billion-dollar investments. But with Khashoggi's well-publicized role as the middleman in America's arms-for-hostages deals with Iran, light has been cast on the sometimes shaky financial state of his private and public dealings. Like the arms sales to Iran, several of his recent investments have been ill-conceived, botched deals...
...said, "The President says he doesn't know, and I assume he is telling the truth. The fact is that after weeks of investigation, we know relatively little about that diversion." He added that his committee hopes to hear from foreign participants, including Israeli officials and Saudi Arms Merchant Adnan Khashoggi...
...York Businessman Roy Furmark, a consultant to Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, described a financial mystery in an interview with TIME. His story: Khashoggi lined up $25 million in bridge financing for U.S. sales of arms to Iran this year. Toronto Investors Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller, together with some Middle Eastern and European investors, routed the $25 million via Khashoggi into the Swiss account of Lake Resources, Inc. -- $10 million in February and $15 million in May. Why Lake Resources? Says Furmark: "Mr. Khashoggi said Mr. Nir of the Israeli government told him that Lake Resources was the account...
...London, Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi arranges a meeting between Ghorbanifar and Israeli arms dealers...