Talk:Ghaith Pharaon/Archives/2017

Death
According to Hungarian news portals, he died in a Beirut hospital. --Norden1990 (talk) 23:20, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * A lot of the Hungarian blog material about Pharaon seems to be unreliable. This claim requires at least a link to a real newspaper story as a source. Rgr09 (talk) 04:55, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 January 2017
He has died on 6th January 2017 115.186.178.12 (talk) 03:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 03:33, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Notable affiliations
''This section (and its subsections) is unsourced and comprises a long ill-defined list. It also contains a large number of redlinks.'' RJFJR (talk) 22:52, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Business associates

 * Roger Tamraz
 * Adnan Khashoggi, rival and occasional business partner.
 * Talat M. Othman, co-investor in Harken Energy.
 * Saudi financier Khaled bin Mahfouz; close friend and confidant
 * Sheikh Kamal Adham, BCCI principal, head of Saudi intelligence
 * Sheikh Abdul Raouf Khalil
 * Sheikh Abdullah Taha Bakhsh
 * Faisal Saud Al Fulaij, via BCCI.
 * Nazir Chinoy, BCCI.
 * Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi, BCCI co-founders.
 * Amer Lodhi, lawyer; worked for BCCI and for Pharaon.
 * Javier González Fraga, economist hired by Pharaon to manage debt equity swaps for BCCI in Argentina, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina and current (as of June of 2011) Vice-Presidential candidate for the Radical Civic Union.
 * Abbas Gokal, and other members of the Gokal Family of Pakistan.
 * P. S. Prasad, BCCI's largest individual borrower in the US at the time of its collapse; fled to India in 1991.
 * Bert Lance, Clark Clifford, Robert Altman, James R. Bath, via BCCI.
 * Sergio da Costa, former Brazilian ambassador to the US; BCCI front man in Brazil and consultant for Kissinger Associates.
 * Michael Ameen, Houston-based oil consultant, associated with Mobil, Aramco, Harken. Early acquaintance of Pharaon and long-term friend of Bakhsh.
 * David Paul, via CenTrust.
 * John Connally, co-investor with Mahfouz and Bath in the Main Bank of Houston.

Family members

 * Dr. Rashad Pharaon, father. The Syrian-born Rashad came to Saudi Arabia, where he became chief physician to King Abdul Aziz, and later a political advisor to kings Faisal and Khalid.
 * Mazen Rashad Pharaon, brother, involved in the BCCI scandal.
 * Waleed Pharaon
 * Wabel Pharaon, brother, also involved in the BCCI scandal, notorious womanizer with known mistresses in Paris and London.

Banking affiliations

 * BCCI
 * Main Bank of Houston
 * The National Bank of Georgia (U.S.)
 * Independence Bank of Encino
 * CenTrust Federal Savings Bank of Miami, a "failed satellite" of BCCI
 * Bank of the Commonwealth, Detroit.
 * First American Bankshares

Oil industry

 * Arbusto Energy, seed investor.
 * Occidental Petroleum Company, shareholder.
 * Attock Oil Company Limited, UK, major shareholder

Minor holding / shell companies

 * Interedec Inc, Savannah-based 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.

Conglomerates

 * Pharaon Group of Pakistan
 * Various entities under the umbrella of the Saudi-based Attock Group of Companies, such as Attock Oil, Attock Cement of Pakistan, National Refinery Limited Pakistan.

Notable past holdings

 * The Hyatt Hotel in Riyadh was one of Pharaon's earlier projects, and helped launch his career. It later became known in the West as the U.S. Military's base of operations in the Persian Gulf War.
 * Pharaon also owned the former Henry Ford II estate outside of Savannah, GA.

Current holdings

 * The 5-star Janna Spa & Resort, outside Madaba, Jordan (about an hour south of Amman); recently given a gushing review by the New York Times. (Janna means "garden" in Arabic [and] is commonly used in the meaning of "heaven").


 * The 60 meter superyacht Le Pharaon, launched in 1989 by Feadship Royal Van Lent and lengthened in 2003 during a refit at Peters Schiffbau GmbH.

Unsourced claims of businesses
The article originally stated: Pharaon's investments include Interdec inc., the CRS Group, and the Moran Company. He currently has business interests in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Algeria, Jordan, and Argentina. The articles cited do not mention any of these companies. In addition, newspaper articles form 1991 cannot be cited as a source for Pharaon's activities in the 2010s. I have therefore deleted the paragraph. Rgr09 (talk) 02:29, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Death claims
An editor finally supplied some sources for this. The claim that Pharaon died has appeared on Origo.hu, a Hungarian news website, and the website of RTL Klub, a Hungarian television station. In both cases it is based on a twitter sent through a company called Dhownet (dhow.com), which seems to be a Dubai based business media company. The twitter does not give a date for Pharaon's death, only that he died in Beirut, aged 76, and had two sons and two daughters. Weak sourcing, but something is better than nothing. Rgr09 (talk) 01:14, 10 January 2017 (UTC)