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2 - Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan
Ranking: 2 Worth: £900m ($1.8billion)
Industry: Politics
Asif Zardari dubbed “Mr 10%” an unknown
happy-go-lucky son of a small-time businessman
who struck gold by marrying one of the worlds
most glamorous women Former Prime Minister of
Pakistan Benzair Bhutto. Taking advantage of his
wife’s authority he is known to have taken
kickbacks from many deals inside and outside of
Pakistan. The most famous was a $4 billion deal
to buy 32 Mirage jets from the French company
Dassault. Documents, which include letters from
Dassault executives, indicate an agreement was
reached to pay a 5% “remuneration” - about $200m
- to Marleton Business, a BVI company controlled
by Zardari.
Besides these many more kickback deals were
taken with companies such as ARY Gold, Société
Général de Surveillance (SGS), Cotecna, and ZPC
Ursus, a Polish tractor company.
Zardari assets holding amount into hundreds of
millions of dollars easily, Having 8 prime
properties in the UK, of which once is the
famous Rockwood Estate 365 acres in Surrey,
worth £4.35m has now been sold and money sent
back to the Govt. of Pakistan. Also 14
multi-million dollar mansions in the USA,
including owning Holiday Inn hotel Houston,
Texas Owned by “Mr 10%“ and Iqbal Memon and
Sadar-ud-Din Hashwani.
They (Zardari and B.Bhutto) also have huge
business ventures in the Middle East running
into hundreds of millions if not billion mark.
Mr Zardari also has huge stakes in sugar mills
all over Pakistan,which include: Sakrand Sugar
Mills, Nawabshah, Ansari Sugar Mills, Hyderabad,
Mirza Sugar Mills, Badin, Pangrio Sugar Mills,
Thatta and Bachani Sugar Mills, Sanghar.
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