Abdul Razzak Yaqoob
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Early life
He was born in Surat, British India to Memon family in 1944 which later migrated to Karachi after partition.[1]
Business career
Yakoob moved to the United Arab Emirates in the 1960s and started gold business with an outlet in Dubai. He founded ARY Group in 1972 and launched a private television channel ARY Digital in 2000.[1]
He was associated with the ARY Gold bribery case in which he paid a bribe to then Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto to get exclusive rights to import and trade gold in Pakistan.[1] In January 1994, Schlegelmilch established a British Virgin Island based named Capricorn Trading, with Zardari as its owner.[2]
Death
He died on 21 February 2014 in London, United Kingdom.[1]
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- 1944 births
- 2014 deaths
- Pakistani company founders
- Pakistani industrialists
- Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
- Bribery scandals
- Government of Benazir Bhutto
- ARY Digital Network people
- Memon businesspeople
- Pakistani people of Gujarati descent
- Businesspeople from Dubai
- Businesspeople from Karachi
- Pakistani Muslims
- Pakistani mass media owners
- People from Surat
- Muhajir people
- Indian emigrants to Pakistan