Bakr bin Laden
Bakr bin Laden ( Arabic بكر بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, DMG Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAwaḍ b. Lādin ; * probably around 1948) is the head of the Saudi Binladin Group , one of the largest Saudi Arabian companies, and an older half-brother of Osama bin Laden . He is also the largest shareholder in the company with 23.8%.
Bakr bin Laden has been running the company since his older brother Salim bin Laden (1946–1988) died in an accident . At the same time, he is publicly perceived as the " patriarch " of the Bin Laden family.
After the Saudi King Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz founded an anti-corruption commission headed by his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , it arrested eleven princes, four ministers, many ex-ministers and business people, including the head of the National Guard , Miteb Bin Abdullah , the Minister of Economics and Planning, Adel Fakeih , Bakr bin Laden and the billionaires al-Walid ibn Talal and Saleh Abdullah Kamel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of the second generation of the Bin Laden family in the English Wikipedia, accessed on May 2, 2011.
- ↑ Bakr bin Laden in the English Wikipedia, accessed on May 2, 2011.
- ↑ a b Hydra with many heads. In: Der Spiegel , September 24, 2001, accessed on May 2, 2011.
- ↑ David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times: Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal
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SURNAME | Load, Bakr bin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saudi Arabian company director, half-brother of Osama Bin Laden |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1948 |