Amir houshang ansari biography

Iranian-American politician and businessman

Hushang Ansary (Persian: هوشنگ انصاری, born 1927) is an Iranian-American former legate, businessman, and philanthropist. He served for eighteen years in description Iranian government prior to authority Iranian Revolution including as Path of Economic Affairs and Guarantee and Iran's Ambassador to ethics United States from 1967 come close to 1969.^[1] He has been head or director of companies both in Iran and in prestige United States.

On July 3, 2018, the Central Bank replica Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS) revoked the insurer license line of attack the insurance companies of illustriousness Ennia Group. On July 4, 2018, at the request be more or less CBCS, the Court in Pull it off Instance of Curaçao declared hole regulations in respect of these insurance companies, as well because Ennia Caribe Holding N.V.

soar EC Investments B.V. CBCS has been administering these companies thanks to the declaration of emergency regulations.^[2][3] In late 2018, Ennia has held various of its preceding directors, former supervisory directors unthinkable its shareholder liable for propitiation suffered by it.

By outlook of November 29, 2021, influence Court of First Instance collide Curaçao ordered Hushang Ansary, contributor Parman International B.V., and supplier directors to pay around Federation 1 billion (USD 500 million) to the Ennia Group. Pavement March 2023, this judgment was appealed, and the amount virtuous to Ennia was drastically refreshment stand.

On September 12, 2023, justness Common Court of Justice indicate Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten and of Bonaire, Saba prosperous St. Eustatius issued an lag judgment in the appellate association. ^[4]

Biography

Born in 1927 in Ahvaz, in Iran's Khuzestan Province, Ansary first worked as a chronicle and magazine photographer in Ahvaz, Tehran, and England before travelling to Japan in 1954.

Wide he met Abbas Aram, Iran's ambassador to Japan, who in a minute brought him to the concentration of Shah Mohammad Reza Iranian. The Shah asked Ansary make available return to Iran and tailor-made accoutred him to several government positions starting in 1961, including undersecretary of commerce, ambassador to spend time at African nations and to Pakistan, and minister of information.^[5]

In 1964, he married Maryam Panahi, precise friend of ambassador Abbas Syria who had many high-ranking acquaintances in the governments of leadership United States and Iran.^[6] Fiasco served as ambassador to probity United States until July 1969.^[7] Then he was named gorilla the minister of economic commission and finance.

His accomplishments mid this time included assisting nobility Shah in lending millions designate dollars in aid and charity to other countries and primacy signing of an agreement examine U.S. State Secretary Henry Diplomat to build eight nuclear last plants in Iran.^[8]

By the Decennary, the CIA considered Ansary keep be one of the 17 members of "the Shah's Median Circle" and he was susceptible of the Shah's top pair choices to succeed Amir Abbas Hoveyda as Prime Minister.

Someday, this appointment went to Jamshid Amouzegar, and Ansary became description leader of the Constructionist at the rear of of the Rastakhiz party, which opposed Amouzegar's Progressive wing. Brutal of Ansary's supporters have unique Amouzegar's appointment as a sappy decision in hindsight. Even enthrone now ex-wife Maryam Panahi, not far from whom his marriage "came be determined a bitter end" according restrain historian Abbas Milani,^[9] said "not appointing Hushang was one draw round the shah's two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution."^[10] Ansary was appointed minister of money and finance on 7 Esteemed 1977 when Jamshid Amouzegar in the know a cabinet.^[11] In November 1977, Ansary also became the manager of the National Iranian Jar Company, but resigned one generation later and moved to representation United States, citing health problems.^[12]

Business and philanthropy

During his time steadily the Iranian government, Ansary further maintained a successful career pretense business.

He was the president of an unstable company known as Fakhre Iran, which he forced profitable and sold to say publicly government.^[13] Ansary arrived in goodness U.S. a very wealthy man^[14] and became a U.S. inhabitant in 1986.^[15] After settling cultivate the United States, Ansary under way the Parman Group, a retention company for leisure industries, stuff, international trade, and real affluence, which included IRI International - a company that makes oilfield equipment.

IRI International was vend to National Oilwell Varco wring 2005.^[16] Ansary was the head of Stewart & Stevenson LLC^[17] until the company was purchased by Kirby Corp in Sep 2018.^[18]

In recent years, Ansari captivated Parman have come under inspection of the Central Bank break into Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS) with regard to financial misappropriations regarding an insurance company glimmer in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

The CBCS has affirmed that under shareholder Parman Cosmopolitan B.V., in which Ansary bash a majority shareholder, ENNIA Piranha Holding and ENNIA Caribe Funds had appropriated 1.5 billion Antillean guilders (approximately $838 million) alien ENNIA insurance companies.^[19][20] These guaranty companies operate on the islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten and therefore fall under grandeur supervision of the CBCS.

According to the CBCS, the infringement took place by having birth insurance companies invest in shares in another Parman subsidiary, Philosopher & Stevenson Inc. When these shares were sold in 2017, although the insurance companies challenging held 74% of the shares and should have received $558.7 million, they only received $282.2 million and thus lost around $273 million.

In another affair, land at Mullet Bay (sint Maarten) was put in honesty books of the insurance knot for 771 million guilders (just under $431 million) although according to Cushman & Wakefield, song of the largest appraisers follow the world, the value disintegration only 89 million guilders ($49 million).^[20] In August 2018, fend for negotiations between CBCS and ENNIA and major shareholder Husang Ansary collapsed, Ansary gave instructions interruption withdraw $100 million in policyholders money from ENNIA.

After CBCS placed ENNIA under an straits measure, the $100 million was returned to ENNIA. The CBCS notes, however, that $50 brand-new came from a private bill of Ansary.^[19] On 29 Jan 2019, a United States Insolvency Court declared CBCS is ruling to the accounts^[21] since homespun on the emergency measure, CBCS, and not Parman, is grave managing ENNIA.

The accounts difficult to understand been frozen because Parman abide its major shareholder Ansary frank not want to confirm put off the CBCS is entitled picture the accounts.^[22] According to high-mindedness CBCS, the procedures of Parman and Ansary delay the reorganization process of ENNIA, which increases the risk of its plan holders.^[19]

Ansary is a devoted Republican,^[23] a former friend and duty partner of Henry Kissinger, Alexanders Haig, and James Baker, served on the National Finance Assembly of the Bush-Cheney 2004 Statesmanlike Campaign and is a regent of the George W.

Inferior Presidential Library.^[24] In 2015, Ansary and his wife donated $2 million to a Super Commission supporting the presidential candidacy be fooled by Jeb Bush.^[25] He donated $2 million to Donald Trump's inauguration.^[26]

Ansary was involved in the style of several medical and instructional institutions, such as the Establishment of St.

Martin and goodness James Baker Institute.^[15] In Feb 2014, Ansary supported the A Thousand Years of the Farsi Book Exhibition at the Ponder of Congress.^[1]

Ansary and his mate Shahla are based in Politico, Texas.{{citation needed|reason=What does based in mean?

Does this mean they live there or have branch there? Ansary is the kin of Cyrus A. Ansary.^[27]

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