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Article: Reversal Of Fortune; Shah's Son Alleges Ex-Aide Embezzled Millions
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- The Washington Post
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- July 22, 1996
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Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah of Iran, says he realized
that up to about $24 million of his family's money had been
squandered the day he stared into an empty safe-deposit box at a
Swiss bank.
It was April 12, 1989, and Pahlavi, who was looking for his
own financial records supposedly in safekeeping in the deposit box,
was escorted brusquely from the Geneva vault and informed by a bank
director that he should not have been given access to it. As
described in a lawsuit now before a federal appeals court in
Richmond, Pahlavi believes he was betrayed by Ahmad Ali Massoud
Ansari, one of his closest aides.
It was the latest misfortune in the life of the 35-year-old
heir, who, 17 ...