Pascal Najadi

Swiss Investment Banker and Film Producer[edit]

Pascal Najadi is a Swiss investment banker, film producer and author. He was born in Switzerland, on August 20th 1967. His late father Hussain Najadi (1938-2013) was born in the Kingdom of Bahrain and was an international merchant banker and the founder in 1975 of Arab Malaysian Development Bank, today's AmBank Group, Malaysia's 4th largest banking group with assets of more than USD 35 bn (2021). He was brutally assassinated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 29th 2013. His mother, Heidi Najadi Anderhub-Minger, born in Switzerland 1942, is a direct descendant of Rudolf Minger, former Swiss Federal Counsel and Swiss President before and at the beginning of WW2. He was also the founder of the Swiss conservative party SVP (Schweizerische Volks Partei). Pascal Najadi is also a member of SVP. He resides in Switzerland and is married to Anna Najadi-Janson, a professional Swiss photographer who is also a SVP party member.

As of 1981 until 1986 he attended the Institut auf dem Rosenberg, St. Gallen Switzerland getting his degrees in economy and finance and began his banking career as an intern at UBS Zurich in 1987 until 1989. Pascal Najadi served in the Swiss Airforce as NCO for two years. From 1990 until 1993 he was a Vice President in charge of Emerging Markets Capital Markets business with Merrill Lynch & Co. London and New York. He served from 1993 - 2003 as a Management Board Member at Kleinwort Benson Ltd, London, the Investment Banking firm belonging to the Dresdner Bank Group, Frankfurt a.M., Germany. At Kleinwort Benson Ltd. he was in charge of Emerging Markets and Capital Markets business covering sovereigns in Central Europe, Central Asia, the Russian Federation, Africa and the Middle East. From 2005 until 2008 he was the Chief Representative of BOMBARDIER Aerospace to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Between 2008 until 2012 he was a Managing Partner and Supervisory Board Member with Investment Advisors Zurich AG and Investment Advisors Zurich Ltd., Singapore. Both entities were regulated by the Swiss regulator finma and by the Singaporean MAS until the firm was sold to a Singaporean group in 2012. In 2008, in parallel to Investment Advisors Zurich AG, he joined his father's family Merchant Banking firm AIAK (Arab Investments for Asia Kuwait) Malaysia sdn. bhd., Kuala Lumpur, where he served as Deputy Chairman and Deputy CEO until the assassination of his father in 2013. In 2013 Pascal Najadi rebranded the firm into Najadi & Partners AG registered in Zug, Switzerland and opened the subsidiary Najadi & Partners LLC in Moscow, Russia. He sold the firms Najadi & Partners AG and Najadi & Partners LLC, Moscow, in 2017 retiring from the banking business altogether. In 2017 he joined briefly the operation RBR Capital AG , Zurich, ran by Swiss Hedgefund Manager Rudi Bohli. They joined forces trying to takeover Credit Suisse and restructure the bank. RBR reportedly had backing of more than 1 billion Swiss Francs in Credit Suisse stock. CEO Thiam did not understand the plan and key shareholders such as Harris and Qatar nixed the plan. Subsequently the Credit Suisse share price has fallen from CHF 18.30 (2017) to CHF 3 (2022). Pascal Najadi since then is reportedly living with a serious health condition in early retirement.

Pascal Najadi was Producer of the Swiss cinema movie "GROUNDING, the last days of Swissair" (2006), voted as one of the best films in Swiss film history. According to an interview given to the Swiss private television station STRICKER TV in autumn 2022 he has started the production of a new Swiss docu-drama titled "The Najadi Assassination" (working title). The movie reportedly and as rumoured in the Swiss film society will be about the assassination of his late father Hussain Najadi and the international 1MDB Scandal. It supposedly will also shed light on the roles the Swiss banks played being caught by the Swiss regulator finma, the Singaporean MAS, the US Dept. of Justice and other international law enforcement agencies . Those banks include, amongst many others, UBS, Credit Suisse, BSI, Coutts & Co, Falcon Bank, AmBank as well as the American Investment Bank giant Goldman Sachs. Swiss Filmmaker and Film Director, Michael Steiner is a Co-Producer alongside fellow Swiss Co-Producers Andrea Neuhaus and Karl Bucher. Screenwriter is said to be Australian Silvana McCausland and Pascal Najadi to be the Producer.

The assassination of Hussain Najadi still remains a mystery as it was clouded by the multi billion USD Malaysian 1MDB scandal that has brought former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak into prison in 2022. The Royal Malaysian Police to this day has not established the motive of the killing, yet establishing the motive is central to any murder Investigation. The US Department of Justice labelled the 1MDB scandal the largest kleptocracy heist in history. More than 4.7 billion USD have been laundered through 1MDB and its web of companies with the help of international banks and eventually AmBank, Kuala Lumpur, the bank founded by Hussain Najadi in 1975. British investigative journalist, creator and Editor of the renowned investigative blog Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown brought the 1MDB scandal first in to the international media arena back in 2013. She has ben ever since the reliable number one source of published information on 1MDB and Malaysian affairs. Clare Rewcastle Brown is the sister in law of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Pascal Najadi has published several articles and news elements with her news site since summer of 2015 to increase pressure on Malaysia to poperly investigate the Hussain Najadi Assassination.

Hollywood stars such as Leonardo di Caprio, film director Martin Scorsese and many others got also entangled in the web of the 1MDB scandal and had to repay all their salaries received for the 2013 released movie "The Wolf of Wallstreet" since the funding for this film came from illicit sources linked to the fraudulent 1MDB scandal. In 2016, the FBI issued subpoenas to several past and present employees of the company Red Granite in regard to allegations that US$155 million was diverted from 1MDB to help finance the 2013 film. Pascal Najadi is known to be ardently committed to uncover the truth behind the assassination of his late father and has commissioned former senior operatives of foreign security services to assist him. He and his family are reportedly living since 2016 under protection by the Swiss Police.

On December 6th 2022 Swiss Daily Newspaper Nebelspalter reported that Pascal Najadi has filed Criminal Charges on December 2nd 2022 against Swiss President Alain Berset for Abuse of Office and Gross Negligence regarding the COVID Vaccine and the COVID Passport. Die Swiss Daily Newspaper Weltwoche also reported this on December 7th. 2022 followed by Swiss Mainstream Media 20Minutes on the 8th of December 2022. His quote about this scandal often said is: "A lie spread does not become the truth just because it is believed and accepted by a majority!”

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