Billionaire John Paulson accused a longtime business partner of siphoning $3.4 million in company funds to finance his jet-set lifestyle and diverted millions more to “shell companies” owned by his wife, according to a new lawsuit.in 2007 — has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle with Fahad Ghaffar, who has worked for the mogul’s Paulson Entitities in Puerto Rico since 2013.
The allegations also include claims that Ghaffar loaned his father-in-law, Glen, an Audi Q3 SUV for free, and hired his sister, Saira, as a vendor at St. Regis — a resort owned by the billionaire’s fund Paulson & Co. — where she “inflated the price of the items she sold to the St. Regis in order to pocket additional commissions and/or profits from the inflated costs.”Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson accused his former business partner Fahad Ghaffar of siphoning off $3.
Paulson is seeking some $190 million in damages for Ghaffar’s alleged violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which was put into place in 1970 to take down organized crime organizations. Paulson bashed the lawsuit as “destructive and disrespectful behavior,” and banned Ghaffar from the duo’s luxury properties in Puerto Rico, citing a video — Paulson last month banned Ghaffar from the duo’s luxury properties in Puerto Rico after a video appeared to show an intoxicated Ghaffar pushing employees at the Serafina restaurant located the Paulson-owned La Concha Resort.
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