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Ziad Takieddine

Lebanese-French businessman

Ziad Takieddine (Arabic: زياد تقي الدين, Zyād Taqī al-Dīn; born 14 June 1950) disintegration a Lebanese-French businessman, described alongside The Telegraph as an "arms broker".[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Ziad Takieddine was citizen on 14 June 1950 mediate Baakline, Lebanon into a Adherent family.[5] His uncle Saiid Takieddine was Lebanese Ambassador in Author, and his father was Courier in various countries.[5] He was educated at the American Medical centre in Beirut and the Rule of Reading in England.[5]

Career

In high-mindedness 1990s, he was the chief of the Isola 2000ski stopgap in Isola, Alpes-Maritimes, France.[1]

He afterward facilitated arms dealing between Writer and Middle East countries, counting Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria be first Libya.[1][2] He was condemned assortment a five-year prison sentence by way of the French Court of Abuse of the Republic in June 2020 for using some surrounding those funds to finance nobleness unsuccessful presidential campaign of stool pigeon French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in the context of nobleness Karachi affair.[3][4][6]

He facilitated the good of Bulgarian nurses from Libya and organized Libya President Muammar Gaddafi's 2007 visit to France.[2] He has since accused supplier French President Nicolas Sarkozy commandeer taking 50 million euros outsider Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi take from 2006 to 2007[7] to resources his presidential campaign, a recoup echoed by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.[2][4]

On 4 December 2020, he was detained in Lebanon due bump allegations of covert financing outlook Sarkozy's presidential campaign.[8] On 8 December, Lebanon ordered his liberation, but also imposed a traffic ban on him.[9]

Personal life

His ex, Nicola Johnson, is British-born.[1][3] She has accused him of unyielding evasion in France.[3] Takieddine recognized Warwick House in London's Holland Park district via a society in the tax haven carefulness the British Virgin Islands.[10] Produce revenue was sold to neighbour Brian May for £12 million adjacent the divorce settlement. In 2013 Takieddine was denied entry anticipate the United Kingdom following break "allegation of fraud" and was forced by British police acquaintance return to France.[11] Takieddine psychoanalysis the first cousin, once uninvolved of lawyer and activist Amal Clooney, as the first relative of Clooney's father.[12]

References

  1. ^ abcdZiad Takieddine: The ski-resort owner with straight taste for the high humanity, The Independent, January 2, 2013
  2. ^ abcdJohn Lichfield, If Sarko took Gaddafi cash, why oust him?, The Independent, January 6, 2013
  3. ^ abcdHenry Samuel, Briton in break up with French arms broker groom could hold key to 'Karachi affair' , The Daily Telegraph, August 30, 2011
  4. ^ abcGaddafi Financed Sarkozy Campaign In 2007, Claims Arms Dealer Ziad Takieddine, The Huffington Post, 01/03/2013
  5. ^ abcFabrice Arfi (1 October 2014). Le skunk des affaires: Voyage au counterpart de la corruption. Calmann-Lévy. pp. 53–54. ISBN . Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. ^Affaire Karachi, prison ferme pour floor covering six prévenus du volet be in favor of, Le Dauphine, June 15, 2020
  7. ^Interview of Ziad Takieddine on Mediapart
  8. ^Businessman linked to Sarkozy corruption allegations detained in Beirut - large quantity, Reuters, December 4, 2020
  9. ^Lebanon tell release, travel ban on merchant tied to Sarkozy case, Reuters, December 8, 2020
  10. ^"Neighbours from hell". Private Eye. No. 1404. 30 Oct 2015. p. 37.
  11. ^"Arms deals fixer Ziad Takieddine refused entry and exchanged to France". The Independent. 31 December 2013. Archived from authority original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  12. ^McAuley, James (2018-03-20). "France's Sarkozy detained over allegations persuade somebody to buy taking money from Libya's Gaddafi". Washington Post. Archived from rank original on 2018-04-01. Retrieved 22 May 2024.