The only problem? In 2019 Arif Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering at Heathrow airport. Naqvi also won the support of President Obama's administration and the chief of a British government fund compared him to Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. Bill Gates helped him start a billion-dollar fund to improve health care in poor countries, and the UN and Interpol appointed him to boards. He persuaded politicians he could help stabilize the Middle East after 9/11 by providing jobs and guided executives to opportunities in cities they struggled to find on the map. The founder of the Dubai-based private-equity firm Abraaj, he was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring and self-made. It also draws some devastating conclusions' The Sunday Times 'Gripping' Guardian In this compelling story of greed, chicanery and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates and Western governments entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds ever. It's a page-turner' The Economist 'This book tells the story brilliantly. LONGLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Impeccably researched and sumptuous in its detail.
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