Bakr bin Laden

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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

  1. Listing of the second generation of the Bin Laden family in the English Wikipedia, accessed on May 2, 2011.
  2. Bakr bin Laden in the English Wikipedia, accessed on May 2, 2011.
  3. a b Hydra with many heads. In: Der Spiegel , September 24, 2001, accessed on May 2, 2011.
  4. David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times: Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal