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- <text id=89TT1988>
- <title>
- July 31, 1989: Extradited:Adnan Khashoggi
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 31, 1989 Doctors And Patients
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 67
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- <p> EXTRADITED. Adnan Khashoggi, 54, ostentatious, peripatetic
- (twelve residences) multimillionaire Saudi businessman and
- financier; to New York City from a jail in Bern, Switzerland.
- Arrested by Swiss authorities last April at the request of U.S.
- prosecutors, he is charged with helping Ferdinand Marcos and
- his wife Imelda in real estate deals financed with funds stolen
- from the Philippine Treasury. Under terms of the extradition,
- Khashoggi will face prosecution for mail fraud and obstruction
- of justice but will not be tried on more serious racketeering
- charges, which are not punishable under Swiss law. Held without
- bail until his true worth is determined, Khashoggi faces five
- years in jail and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
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