{"id":11112,"date":"2009-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"kuwait-financier-facing-us-fraud-suit-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/kuwait-financier-facing-us-fraud-suit-found-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait financier facing U.S. fraud suit found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A brash Kuwaiti financier facing a fraud suit by U.S. authorities was found dead Sunday in an apparent suicide that sent shockwaves through the Gulf Arab financial sector.                 <\/p>\n<p> A security source told Reuters that Hazem Al-Braikan appeared to have died from a single gunshot wound to the side of the head, while a policeman standing outside Braikan&#8217;s house said the well-connected financier, 37, had shot himself.<\/p>\n<p> Braikan was the chief executive of Al Raya Investment, which is 10 percent owned by <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Citigroup Inc<\/span>, and had been at the center of a financial scandal that erupted last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090726\/bs_nm\/us_harman_braikan_confirmation\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A brash Kuwaiti financier facing a fraud suit by U.S. authorities was found dead Sunday in an apparent suicide that sent shockwaves through the Gulf Arab financial sector. A security source told Reuters that Hazem Al-Braikan appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10786,964,67,218,812,14567,1837,4817,4073,3953,14570,14569,10669,4326,14568],"class_list":["post-11112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-apparent-suicide","tag-authorities","tag-chief-executive","tag-citigroup","tag-citigroup-inc","tag-financial-scandal","tag-financial-sector","tag-financier","tag-fraud-suit","tag-gulf-arab","tag-gunshot","tag-hazem","tag-policeman","tag-reuters","tag-security-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}