Vincent Tchenguiz was born on 9 October 1956 and is an Iranian-British entrepreneur born in Tehran.
16 Facts About Vincent Tchenguiz
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Vincent Tchenguiz was born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iraqi-Jewish family, the son of Victor and Violet Khadouri.
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Vincent Tchenguiz's family left Iraq in 1948 and settled in Iran, where his father, Victor Tchenguiz, a jeweler, worked for the Shah and ran the country's mint, even though he was a foreigner and was Jewish.
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Vincent Tchenguiz changed the family surname from Khadouri to Tchenguiz.
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Vincent Tchenguiz has one brother Robert Tchenguiz and a sister Lisa Tchenguiz who divorced BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, Gary Davies, and South African-born Del Monte CEO, Vivian Imerman.
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Vincent Tchenguiz subsequently completed a business administration course at Boston University and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Bachelor of Science Honours in Economics from Montreal's McGill University in 1978.
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Vincent Tchenguiz is the joint managing director and joint chairman.
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In 2002, Vincent Tchenguiz set up Consensus Business Group, assuming the position of chairman.
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In 2009, Vincent Tchenguiz steered the move of Bramdean Alternatives investment trust to move to private equity following the Bernie Madoff scandal.
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On 10 March 2011, Vincent Tchenguiz was arrested by the Serious Fraud Office as part of a wider investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing.
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On 22 December 2011, the SFO and the Treasury Solicitors Department admitted factual errors in the information used to obtain the warrants against Consensus Business Group and Vincent Tchenguiz; stated that the warrants should be quashed; and that material seized under the warrants would be returned that day.
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Concurrently, Vincent Tchenguiz filed a lawsuit in Israel against Black Cube, alleging fraudulent invoices, an allegation denied by Black Cube.
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In January 2018, Proxima GR Properties, owned by the Vincent Tchenguiz family trust of which Vincent Tchenguiz is a beneficiary refused to replace flammable cladding, similar to the material responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Vincent Tchenguiz has been the largest shareholder of Cambridge Analytica, the company involved in 2018 Facebook scandal.
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Vincent Tchenguiz is known as a major donor to the Conservative Party.
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Vincent Tchenguiz is granted permission to hand evidence disclosed as part of the SFO investigation to criminal and civil legal teams to examine the possibility for further action against third parties.