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Asil Nadir - Businessman

Asil Nadir (1941-) - Turkish Cypriot former businessman, chief executive of Polly Peck, which grew throughout the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed companies, but which collapsed following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Charges were brought against Asil Nadir on 70 counts of false accounting and theft. A fugitive from British justice for 17 years, Nadir returned to the UK in 2010 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2012

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10796721
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48444134
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3721px x 4705px (5.6MB)
Credit
©Tim Mercer / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Tim Mercer
Date
1986

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