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Pharaon Commercial Investment Group Ltd. (PCIGL) |
Attock Cement Pakistan. |
National Refinery Ltd./Attock Oil Group |
Attock Oil, Pakistan Oilfields Ltd. Ltd. |
Bayview International |
Interredec/Interedec/Parkway Hotel Corp. |
Concorde International/TEAM GREEN SRL |
"Le Pharaon" |
yacht-images.com |
"Le Pharaon"---
Captain--khaleejtimes.com lists Sigfred Grande as captain just4engineers.com and synfo.com lists the captain as Jason Ikiadis. Sept. 2006 issue of yotcru.com lists Ikiadis.Phonebook search shows "Jason Ikiadis" a resident of Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral; age 42; this lead will be followed up Le Pharaon (#761) was built by Feadship Van Lent in 1989 to a design of Frits De Voogt. The interior of Le Pharaon was designed by Pierre Tanter. In 2002 Le Pharaon was lengthened with 5m by the Peterswerft in Germany. (source--yacht-images.com) Flag: Panama; Call sign: HO3121 (Panama): IMO#1002469 |
Sailing Log of Le Pharaon |
date | location | notes | spotter | source |
5/4/07 | Seychelles | n/a | n/a | seychellesweekly.com |
3/11/07 | Jumeirah Beach Hotel Marina | Dubai | gustavhl | webshots.com |
7/12/06 | Hvar, Croatia | n/a | n/a | Yacht-Images.com |
6/13/06 | Pantelleria (Sicily) | FBI raid | n/a | khaleejtimes.com |
6/10/06 | Algiers | 50% CNAN shipping ref. | Anonymous/?? | professorhex.blogspot.com |
12/05-2/06 | Seychelles Islands | Wharf Victoria | n/a | khaleejtimes.com |
6/4/05 | lavrion | berthed next to "issham al baher" | willawake | powerandmotoryacht.zeroforum.com |
2003 | Beirut | Dbayeh Marina | n/a | khaleejtimes.com |
BCCI |
guardian.co.uk 1991 |
BCCI Bank of Credit and Commerce International. 7/13/91.--In a complaint issued today, the Fed accuses the two executives, Gaith R. Pharaon, a Saudi financier, and Aga Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani banker, of illegally concealing B.C.C.I.'s acquisition of Independence Bank of Encino, Calif. In a related criminal investigation, the Manhattan District Attorney is examining whether B.C.C.I. also acquired First American Bankshares of Washington, which is headed by Clark M. Clifford, the longtime Presidential adviser, and his law partner, Robert A. Altman. Richard F. Lawler, a lawyer who represents Mr. Pharaon, declined to comment on today's action. "Gaith Pharaon has not done anything improper," Mr. Lawler said. "We are not going to try this case in the press." Mr. Pharaon made national news in 1978 when he bought the National Bank of Georgia from Bert Lance, a budget director in the Carter Administration. Mr. Lance was forced to resign in 1977 amid speculation about improper banking practices. Mr. Pharaon was introduced to Mr. Lance through Mr. Abedi. Mr. Abedi had met Mr. Lance a few years earlier through a mutual acquaintance in the Georgia legislature. (nytimes.com) (7/8/91)In Luxembourg, the nominal base for BCCI (SA), a court will today formally hand over control of the group to liquidators. At a weekend news conference, Pierre Jaans, director of Luxembourg's Monetary Institute, echoed the view of Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton in saying that the bank had been on the verge of collapse when authorities swooped.(guardian.co.uk) |
cnn.com |
Iran/Contra 1984-1986: Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar Both Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar were central agents of the United States in selling arms to Iran in the Iran/Contra affair. According to the official chronologies of the Iran/Contra committees, Khashoggi acted as the middleman for five Iranian arms deals for the United States, financing a number of them through BCCI; and Ghorbanifar was the individual who conceptualized the arms-for-hostage negotiations, and provided the initial channel to the "Iranian moderates" with whom the Reagan Administration negotiated prior to delivering shipments of U.S. TOW missiles and HAWKs to Iran in 1985 and 1986. Khashoggi was served as the "banker" for arms shipments as the undercover scheme developed in 1985 and 1986. Khashoggi himself said he advanced $1 million in August 1985 to "get the deal going." According to his own and other published accounts, he provided some $30 million in loans altogether, depositing money in a Swiss bank account controlled by Lake Resources, the company run by former White House aide Oliver North, who played the pivotal role in the operation involving the arms sales and diversion of funds to Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Both Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar banked at BCCI's offices in Monte Carlo, and for both, BCCI's services were essential as a means of providing short-term credit for sales of arms from the U.S. through Israel to Iran. Khashoggi's use of BCCI for the Iranian arms sales was first described, in passing, in an Iran/Contra committee deposition on June 8, 1987, describing the movement of $10 million from Credit Swisse which would to through BCCI four times to produce $40 million of sales "and therefore, additional profit." In the same deposition, the witness, Khashoggi business manager Emanuel Floor, described Ghorbanifar as stating, "these are my associates," and writing down the name, "BCCI." Floor described BCCI as acting not merely as Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi's bank for the purpose of these transactions, but as an actual partner in the Iranian arms deals.(72) As described in detailed Subcommittee testimony by BCCI Paris manager Nazir Chinoy on March 18, 1992, Khashoggi came to Paris to meet with Chinoy in early 1986 to discuss continuing transactions he had until then been conducting through BCCI's Monte Carlo branch. According to Chinoy, the meeting was set up when Chinoy wished to learn more about the reasons for the sudden increase in assets and activity of the Monte Carlo branch of BCCI, which was under his jurisdiction as chief manager for the French region of the bank. He learned from Manir Karim, the branch manager for Monte Carlo that most of the new assets and activity were the result of a very successful relationship that had been developed with Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Khashoggi had two to three "very active" deposit accounts at Monte Carlo, according to Chinoy, and kept very large balances there, paying "his crew" through travellers checks at the rate of $100,000 to $150,000 each month. Chinoy decided to learn more, and met with Khashoggi and Karim in BCCI's office in Paris: I met Khashoggi in a small room at the bank. He told me he had a deal, he was to be a supplier, buy American arms through Israel and supply them to the Iranians. What he wanted was a four-day credit.(73) |
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