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Zedu sought help in Russia, in the United States, and in his daughter Isabel’s Portuguese friends – without success. Today, Dar Al-Handasah is one of the world’s most renowned architectural design[33] companies and one of the largest employers in Lebanon[34]. If you add to this the charisma of Kamal A. Shair, the attractiveness of his industrial project becomes stronger and stronger.
But not all of these loans end up in state coffers: some money is transferred to a UBS account in Jersey – money that was never found because it was processed by the London branch of Arab Bank[48] – there, where the Dar Al Handasah group has its bank accounts and from where they were immediately transferred to another location[49].
A part was used to finance an account of the subsidiary Penspen International Holding Limited, used in Hong Kong[50], which allowed the company Qatar Petroleum[51] to sign several contracts in Iran (without appearing directly) for the establishment of a consortium with the oil trading company Initial Oil.
Initial Oil is controlled by a personal assistant to Kamal A. Shair: again the former KGB employee, now Angolan Ambassador (and friend of José Eduardo “Zedu” Dos Santos), the aforementioned Herminio Joaquin Escorcio[52].
It also explains the connection with Qatar, where Dar Al-Handasah has an institutional headquarters[53], just like in Abu Dhabi[54] – the Shair family always manages to get along with everyone.
Throughout Dr. Al-Shair’s career, he has initiated and developed various industrial projects. Those wishing to book should write to the email address of Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Angola – the group-controlled holding company in Luanda[127]. He calls it Dar Al-Handasah, “The Home of Engineers”[19].
After growing up together in the streets of the capital, in 1956[20], studying in the same rooms and sharing dreams and needs, four very young professors from the American University of Beirut[21] founded an engineering office in Beirut, which, at that historic moment, was an absolute vanguard in the construction industry[22].
Talal has since appointed a new assistant, the Lebanese Ramzi Klink.
Klink was not only director of the holding company of Dar Al-Handasah group in Dubai, but was also appointed to the board of directors of FESA (Fundação Eduardo Dos Santos de Angola) and became the link between the Shair and the Dos Santos family in leading the acceptance and distribution of Angolan bribes in connection with companies controlled by Dos Santos such as Angoalissar and Arosfram – and in particular Suninvest, a chemical and pharmaceutical industry group in which Klink , Dar Al-Handasah and the Dos Santos family[108] – until the seizure, exploited by a presidential decree in June 2019[109] – held a part of which[110] they now deny the existence[111].
This paradox is even more evident in certain third world countries, where there is no state social policy (because it is a dictatorship, because the country is poor, because it is emerging from a civil war catastrophic) and where domination over available resources is the only reason why every investor is ready for anything[7].
The story of the Lebanese group Dar Al-Handasah[8] was born thanks to a happy start, due to the favorable wave for construction companies in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East[9], and thanks the ambition of four young men who were friends since childhood.
The original project (which pays several other subcontractors for the actual work[132]) will be completed with a freeway interchange[133], two swimming pools and a restaurant, and later also with a shopping center and the new Sonils headquarters – a hated building who, in February 2018, due to the frustration of the population, will be the object of the incendiary fury of people who have never been identified[134]; The scandal exploded, the director of Dar Al-Handasah Angola, Ramzi Link, had to leave his post[135], he fled to South America and founded the construction consulting company Tramma Consulting Group in Junin (Peru)[136], joint with which a certain Rafael Loredo Chupán, who is responsible for overseeing public contracts awarded by the Peruvian State[137].
Klink’s escape was made necessary by the fact that, under the blows of Angolan justice, Isabel Dos Santos’ financial empire is now collapsing and banks around the world are starting to ask for the money they loaned to her, after she founded a new holding company, Efacec, where she wanted to deposit as much money as possible that she had stolen from the State or received in payment for favors and transactions of questionable legitimacy[138].
At the same time, Klink and Zedu’s daughter have to answer for giving grants and diplomatic protection, over the past thirty years, to those on international blacklists, namely Lebanese Hezbollah leaders such as Kassim Tajideen and his sons Mohammed, Ali and Husayn.
Additionally, he is the Vice Chairman of TASNEE. Kamal is said to have been making round trips to the Angolan bush in a private jet in the spring of 1979, bringing medicine and ammunitions to the rebels in exchange for deals to operate the uranium, diamond and gold mines after the war[80]. He is also the founder and Chairman of Shairco Ltd., (1979) which is involved in industrial development.
Dr. Al-Shair is the founder of Cristal and was its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1988 to 2016. 35/5, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London 2014, pages 723-736 – see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2014.921421
[7]https://www.africa-express.info/2019/07/13/malgoverno-sfruttamento-e-corruzione-ecco-perche-il-ricco-continente-africano-non-decolla/
[8]https://www.dar.com
[9]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gulf-States-Construction-Boom-The-1385117
[10]http://www.kamalshair.info
[11]http://www.kamalshair.info/#/life
[12]https://mountaineagle.com/stories/world-bank-funded-dam-in-lebanon-mirrors-governance-crisis,28157 ; https://www.globalcompact-lebanon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Brochure-Corruption.pdf
[13]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-18/dar-worley-takeover-mired-in-political-intrigue/11802584
[14]https://omerjournal.com/2020/07/03/remembered-one-hundred-years-later-al-salt-transjordan-and-the-first-world-war/
[15]http://www.kamalshair.info
[16]https://www.aub.edu.lb
[17]http://www.kamalshair.info/#/activism
[18]http://www.kamalshair.info/#/activism
[19]https://environment-analyst.com/global/71459/lebanons-dar-group-in-search-of-global-recognition
[20]https://www.dar.com/about/history
[21]https://www.aub.edu.lb
[22]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277581301_Learning_from_Beirut_From_Modernism_to_Contemporary_Architecture
[23]https://reportage.corriere.it/esteri/2015/quando-beirut-era-la-svizzera-dorata/
[24]https://medium.com/@Mussaad/kuwaitechture-eaf5a6a14167
[25]https://archinect.com/dargroup ; https://www.dar.com/about/overview
[26]https://www.dar.com/about/history
[27] William Dalrymple, “From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East”.
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As the provincial council decides on the course of action, President Dos Santos signs a decree calling on the local police to immediately evict the residents – a veritable deportation to some tent towns on the outskirts of the city[126] on the basis that this would have been impossible to redevelop the area quickly.
In August of the same year, an announcement was published on the Dar Al-Handasah website: in 2002, 583 new apartments in Boa Vista (Luanda) would be ready.
When you control that sector, you have the power and respect of the local oligarchies[66]. The four boys became friends and advisers to heads of State, intellectuals, soldiers, entrepreneurs and politicians who shared the dream of a new era for the Middle East[18]: almost a utopia in the areas marked by civil war and corruption.