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Man behind £2.6bn battery factory plan quits after tax fraud conviction emerges
PA
15 December 2020, 4:58 pm
The co-founder and chairman of the company planning to build the UK’s first gigafactory in the North East of England has quit after it emerged he was convicted for tax fraud in Sweden more than 20 years ago.
Lars Carlstrom was sentenced to eight months in prison and handed a four-year trading ban for tax fraud in the late 1990s. This was later reduced by a higher court to a conditional sentence and 60 hours community service.
He was later accused of acting negligently by Sweden’s tax authority over a separate unpaid tax bill for one of his companies in 2011.
Arif Naqvi case: Expert witness tells court ex-Abraaj CEO will not receive fair trial in US
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Abraaj Group founder Arif Naqvi. photo: Geo.tv/ file
The Abraaj Group founder faces fraud and money laundering charges. He was arrested in London a year ago
Arif Naqvi has maintained there was no wrongdoing.
Expert witness Michael Baldassare tells court situation at Essex County Correctional Facility is “chaos”
LONDON: A key expert witness has told the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in Abraaj Group founder Arif Naqvi’s extradition hearing that the Pakistani business magnate will be denied basic human rights if extradited to the United States because of inhumane prison conditions , and he will not receive a fair trial.
World
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
LONDON: Abraaj Group founder and ex-CEO Arif Naqvi won t receive a fair trial in the United States, a expert witness to the court in the Pakistan business magnate s extradition hearing on Monday.
Expert witness and lawyer Michael Baldassare told the Westminster Magistrates’ Court Naqvi will be denied basic human rights if extradited to the United States because of inhumane prison conditions .
District Judge Emma Arbuthnot was hearing the case.
Baldassare told the court that the situation at the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) is “chaos”.
Earlier, Naqvi s lawyer Barrister Hugo Keith had objected to the conditions at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility (MCC) in Manhattan and Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC) in Brooklyn.