Nadhim al-Zahawi[1] (Arabic: ناظم الزهاوي) was Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from May 1959 to November 1960.[2] He was also Iraqi Minister of Trade.[3]
Al Zahawi established the Al-Zahawi Group, which after the United States invasion of 2003 obtained a lucrative contract to provide logistics, cleaning and support services to the new US-led interim government.[4] Now known as IPBD ("Iraq Project and Business Development"), its interests have expanded to cover steel manufacturing and property development,[5] and generally "supporting the reconstruction effort".[6]
Al-Zahawi was of Kurdish ethnicity. Zahawi's son is a director of Balshore Investments Ltd, Gibraltar.[7] His grandson is the British politician Nadhim Zahawi.[8]
References
- ↑ The Annual Report of the National Bank of Iraq. Directorate of Statistics and Researches, National Bank of Iraq. 1949. p. 65.
- ↑ "المحافظين". Central Bank of Iraq (in Arabic).
- ↑ Pakistan Trade. Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Government of Pakistan. 1963. p. 13.
- ↑ Pickard, Jim; Jalabi, Raya; Smith, Robert (24 January 2023). "From Iraqi oilfields to Tory HQ: how Nadhim Zahawi mixed business and Politics". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023.
- ↑ Watt, Holly (4 January 2017). "Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi 'closely linked to two tax-haven-based companies'". Guardian.
- ↑ "About IPBD". Iraq Project & Business Development.
- ↑ Ledwith, Mario; Swinford, Steven (9 July 2022). "Explain links to tax haven firms, Nadhim Zahawi urged". The Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- ↑ "Who is Nadhim Zahawi? The child-refugee turned multi-millionaire politician facing questions about his taxes". Sky News. Retrieved 25 January 2023.