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Before it collapsed in 2019, the Dubai-based Abraaj was the world’s biggest private equity firm focused on emerging markets, with some $14 billion of assets under management. Its founder and chief executive, the charismatic Karachi-born Arif Naqvi now stands accused of unprecedented fraud and theft to the tune of $780 million. He is appealing an extradition order from London to the US, where he faces up to 291 years in jail. Two reporters associated with the Wall Street Journal,
who first broke the story of problems at Abraaj, have penned a book detailing their investigations. The book, published internationally on July 8, is based on official indictments, on Abraaj emails that became a part of the court record and interviews with over 150 people, including 70 who worked for Abraaj.
They are not mafia bosses who kill innocent people : Families of two California students sentenced to life for stabbing to death Italian cop slam Italian justice system
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, were convicted by a jury in Rome on Wednesday over the murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35
Elder stabbed Rega 11 times with a 7-inch Rambo knife on July 26, 2019 after a drug deal went awry
Natale-Hjorth, whom Elder knew from high school in Mill Valley, California, helped hide the knife
Elder family spokesman Craig Peters blasted the jury for handing them the same sentence given to mobsters
Two California students, 20 and 21, are found guilty of murdering Italian cop with a Rambo knife in botched drug deal while on vacation and sentenced to life in prison
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, were convicted by a jury in Rome on Wednesday
The jury recommended a life sentence for the murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35
Elder stabbed Rega 11 times with a 7-inch blade on July 26, 2019 after a drug deal went awry
Natale-Hjorth, whom Elder knew from high school in Mill Valley, California, helped hide the knife
The defendants maintained that they acted in self defense when confronted by Rega and his partner
Marin classmates found guilty in murder of Italian police officer, given life sentences
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Finnegan Lee Elder (right) and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth look on during a break in closing arguments in Rome on April 26, 2021. REMO CASILLI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, a pair of former Marin classmates who met up in Rome on vacation and became inextricably linked through the slaying of an Italian police officer, are guilty of murder, an Italian jury ruled Wednesday.
They were both sentenced to life in prison.
The jury consisted of presiding judge Marina Finiti, a second judge and six civilian jurors. They deliberated for 12 hours before delivering their late-night verdict at nearly 11:30 p.m.
Verdict soon in case of Marin friends accused of murdering Italian officer
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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (L) and Finnegan Lee Elder (R), the two men accused of the killing of an Italian police officer, arrive for a hearing in their trial on February 3, 2021 in Rome. - Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are on trial over the killing of Mario Cerciello Rega, who was in plain clothes when he was slain in a night drug bust on July 26 2019.GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Rosa Maria Esilio, widow of slain Carabinieri military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, looks on upon her arrival for a hearing in the trial of the two young US nationals who are accused of the killing in Rome, on March 1, 2021.ALBERTO PIZZOLI/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less