Ghadir Razuki is a British-Iraqi businessman who was the founder of

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, in September 1983.

Early life

Born to Iraqi parents, he moved to London in the United Kingdom after leaving Iraq. In September 1983, then aged twenty-two he launched and published TNT Magazine, a travel magazine aimed at Australian, New Zealand and South African expatriates, in an

Earls Court Road Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the ...

office.

Career

In 2000, Ghadir sold TNT Magazine to the

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, an independent publishing company that would later be subject to hostile takeover by the

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newspaper. Ghadir has since become a Director of

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football club Melbourne City, formally known as

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Razuki, Ghadir Living people Iraqi businesspeople British businesspeople British people of Iraqi descent Year of birth missing (living people)