The pioneers and followers of social networking sites circulated a very widespread post, accompanied by pictures containing large quantities of jewelry, gold bars, cash, and a luxurious private plane, with a comment: “The wealth of the late Kuwaiti billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi.”
The truth about Nasser Al-Kharafi’s fortune pictures
Although Nasser Al-Kharafi and his family are among the richest Arabs, the post is fabricated, and the pictures have nothing to do with his wealth, according to the fact-finding service of Agence France-Presse.
The picture of gold bars published on the Foursquare website, taken at the Bank of England Museum, while the picture of the shelves of gold bars was inside a bank store in South Africa, and the picture of stones and rows of diamonds published on the account of the “Morris and Watson” company for the sale of jewelry.
And the picture of the money, published on August 26, 2016, to cover the news of seizing more than three million dollars that smugglers tried to transfer from the United States of America to Mexico.
The fourth image of the diamond is from the original source of a website for buying and selling on the Internet, and it is a commercial image displayed on the “aliexpress” website, and the fifth image of the bedroom, from an online furniture store in Thailand.
As for the sixth picture of the luxury stairs, it belongs to a ship owned by an Austrian company, and the picture is published on the company’s website. The picture of the car and the plane is a composite picture and it has to be modified. The plane is owned by an Azerbaijani businessman, while the car was for the 2015 race, that is, four years after the death of Kuwaiti businessman Nasser Al-Kharafi.
Who is businessman Nasser Al-Kharafi?
Businessman Nasser Al-Kharafi is a Kuwaiti billionaire, who used to head the family-owned group that owns stakes in several companies listed on the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange.
The group runs an economic empire that extends from real estate to retail and financial services.
Billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi died in April 2011 after suffering a heart attack, after which he passed away at the age of 67.
In addition to being the son of the late businessman Muhammad Abdul Mohsen Al-Kharafi, and the brother of the former Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker, “Jassim Al-Kharafi”, Forbes magazine ranked him (with his family) among the world’s richest people with a fortune of $14 billion in 2008.
