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Which school did Ghaith Pharaon go to from 1961 to 1963?
Ghaith Pharaon Ghaith Rashad Pharaon ( September 7 , 1940 – January 6 , 2017 ) , was a Saudi fugitive financier and businessman who was founder of Attock Group , Attock Cement , and at one time an investor in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , an international bank established by Pakistani financier Agha Hasan Abedi . Secretly acting on behalf of BCCI , Pharaon acquired control of two American banks in violation of federal banking laws . When the fraud was discovered , BCCI was forced to sell the banks , and soon after shut down by regulators when it was determined to be insolvent . Pharaon was charged with wire fraud and racketeering conspiracy ; although he eventually paid out substantial fines and a major settlement to the banks liquidators , the criminal charges were never resolved and American authorities were seeking his extradition until he died in 2017 . Early life and education . Ghaith Pharaon is the son of Rashad Pharaon who served as Saudi Amabassador to all Europe from 1948 until 1954 . His father was also advisor to King Faisal . He attended schools in Lebanon , Syria and Switzerland . His university education was in the United States at the Colorado School of Mines from 1959 to 1961 followed by Stanford University from 1962 to 1963 ; and Harvard Business School from 1963 to 1965 ( until his graduation ) . He was appointed as a member of the board of associates of Harvard Business School and as a member of the International Development Council of the Colorado School of Mines . After graduating from Harvard , Pharaon formed the Saudi Research And Development Corporation , Ltd . ( REDEC ) , the largest private enterprise in the Middle East . Pharaon was a key player in the global oil and banking industries in the 1970s and 1980s and at one time , the No . 2 Saudi investor in the United States . In 1977 , he acquired the National Bank of Georgia from owner Bert Lance as part of complex scheme to take over a large Washington D.C . bank , First American Bankshares , on behalf of BCCI . This eventually led to criminal charges against him in the United States . He died on January 6 , 2017 at the age of 76 . Last days . Pharaon served as Chair of Attock Petroleum . He also served as the Chairman of National Refinery and Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd . He served as the Chairman of Attock Refinery Ltd . until February 18 , 2011 . He served as a Director of Pakistan Oilfields , the Attock Refinery Ltd. , Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd and the National Refinery Ltd . Military contracts . Although Pharaon had been a wanted fugitive by the F.B.I since 1991 for massive fraud in the financial collapse of BCCI Bank ; Pharaon was awarded a total of $120 million in contracts by the United States military in 2008 . The contracts were to supply thousands of tons of jet fuel to American bases stationed in Afghanistan and were awarded to Attock Refinery , a Pakistan-based refinery owned by him and directed by Kamal Adham , the former head of Saudi Intelligence . Personal life . Pharaon used to spend up to six months a year in Pakistan , where he operated his businesses and commercial interests . The extremely wealthy Pharaon was known to have been quite fond of cigars . He lived in his super yacht , which he named Le Pharaon after himself and this repeatedly was seen moored alongside luxury yachts of the rich and famous . In June 2005 , it was seen moored next to the personal yacht of Saudi King Abdullah in a Greek port . Two years earlier , it was seen parked next to another Saudi royal family super yacht near Beirut . In 2016 it was reported that he bought a house in Budapest , right next to the personal residence of the Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orbán .