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The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
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About The Key Man: The True Story Of How The Global Elite
Product Description LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with billions of dollars to make profits and end poverty, but who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen financial frauds ever. Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business leader. The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Naqvi was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. 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. Bill Gates helped him start a $1 billion fund to improve healthcare in poor countries and the UN and Interpol appointed him to boards. As Pope Francis blessed a move to harness capitalism for the good of the poor, Naqvi won the support of Obama’s administration and investors, who compared him to Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. In 2018, Simon Clark and Will Louch were contacted by an anonymous whistleblower who said Naqvi had swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and offered bribes to sustain his billionaire lifestyle. Digging into the claims, Clark and Louch uncovered hundreds of documents and exposed the wrongdoing. In April 2019—months after their exposé broke—Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering, and faces up to 291 years in jail. Populated by a cast of larger-than-life characters and moving across Asia, Africa, Europe and America, The Key Man is the story of how the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairytale. Clark and Louch shine a light on efforts to clean up global capital flows even as opaque private equity firms amass trillions of dollars and offshore tax havens cast a veil of secrecy which prevents regulators, investors and citizens from understanding what’s really going on in the finance industry. Review “This splendid cautionary tale lays bare the vulnerabilities of the world of high finance, where even the grandees of Davos were marks for the kid from Karachi, who could, seemingly, simultaneously produce mega-returns for investors and lift up poor people in the Third World—until, as Clark and Louch compellingly recount, he disastrously could not.“ -- John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate "An unbelievable true tale of greed, corruption, and manipulation among the world’s financial elite and how the World Bank, Bill Gates, and the governments of the US, UK, France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Kuwait fell victim to the world’s largest private equity Ponzi scheme. This guy makes Bernie Madoff look like a saint.” -- Harry Markopolos, the Bernie Madoff whistleblower “Arif Naqvi separated billionaires and royalty from their wealth by appealing to their private conceit that they had made their billions doing God’s work. The twists and turns of the increasingly desperate effort to raise funds to protect Arif’s reputation and keep Abraaj afloat—the near misses and lucky saves—are spellbinding. You won’t want to put the book down.” -- Eileen Appelbaum, coauthor of Private Equity at Work “How do you dupe the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the Gates Foundation, and countless financial luminaries from around the globe? Attach yourself to the latest piece of financial gibberish—philanthrocapitalism—hire a couple of McKinsey consultants, and then get the Harvard Business School to write glowing reports about you. In this page-turner, Clark and Louch serve up an emphatic indictment of the ‘expert class’—people who think agility with numbers is somehow equivalent to wisdom and morality.” -- Duff McDonald, author of The Golden Passport “The writing matches that of the best thrill
