bernard cheong
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Yes the infamous Adnan Khashoggi
In 1982, I worked for the military, and had once delivered some "goods" to the neighbouring countries. This was when I fisrt met the men from the business. He worked for British arms companies Marconi and Westland Helicopters.
Khashoggi was well known for leading an extravagant and wild lifestyle that was legendary in its time.
Khashoggi is a byword for arms dealing. He made many $$$$$ by acting as a middleman for arms companies wanting to sell their wares to the Saudis.
At the top of his game, in the early 1980s, the flashy fixer was billed as one of the richest men in the world, with wealth of up to $4bn (£2bn).
Born in 1935, and his father was the personal doctor of King Abdul Aziz, who founded the modern Saudi state.
He began trading on this connection to the Saudi royal family and was soon pulling in commissions of hundreds of millions of dollars a year acting as a middleman for American companies such as Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon and Boeing.
Lending a Hand - How Heuer was saved by an arms dealer
