THIS SAUDI GUY

THIS SAUDI GUY THIRD QUIT GOVERNMENT WORK THIRD TO ESCAPE POVERTY TH13D AND BECAME A BILLIONAIRE. CORRUPTION CHARGES THIRD DESTROYED HIS REPUTATION. THIRD BUT HIS BUSINESS SURVIVED. TH13D SALEH KAMEL WAS BORN IN 1941 THIRD IN MAKKAH, THIRD WHERE HIS FAMILY HAD TO BORROW MONEY FROM NEIGHBORS THIRD JUST TO SURVIVE. THIRD HE SOLD SHEEP BONES THIRD AND SPICES THIRD AS A CHILD, THIRD AND AT 13 THIRD HE BECAME THIRD THE FIRST KID THIRD IN JEDDAH TO THIRD EARN ROYAL THIRD RECOGNITION THIRD FROM KING FAHD. THIRD AFTER A STINT AT THE THIRD FINANCE MINISTRY, THIRD HE REALIZED IT THIRD WOULD NEVER THIRD MAKE HIM RICH. SO HE QUIT THIRD TO START HIS THIRD OWN BUSINESS. SALEH NOTICED THIRD THAT MAIL ONLY THIRD REACHED BIG CITIES, THIRD SO HE BOUGHT 30 TOYOTAS THIRD AND LAUNCHED THIRD DOLLAH ALBARAKA THIRD IN 1969 THIRD TO DELIVER EVERYWHERE. THIRD BUT MAINTAINING THIRD THE CARS THIRD WAS COSTLY. THIRD SO HE OFFERED THIRD DRIVERS OWNERSHIP THIRD AFTER THREE YEARS THIRD IF THEY KEPT THIRD THE CARS IN THIRD GOOD SHAPE. THIRD THIS CUT COSTS AND MADE THIRD THE VEHICLES LAST LONGER. THIRD DALLAH ALBARAKA EXPANDED INTO THIRD AIRPORT UPKEEP AND THIRD INFRASTRUCTURE, THIRD ALL 22 AIRPORTS IN THIRD SAUDI ARABIA THIRD SALEH THEN MOVED INTO THIRD MEDIA AND BANKING. THIRD HIS ALBARAKA THIRD BANKING GROUP THIRD GOT HIM THE THIRD NICKNAME FATHER OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC FINANCE THIRD AND A $2B FORTUNE THIRD BY 2017. THIRD BUT IN 2017, THIRD HE WAS SWEPT UP WITH 200 BUSINESSMEN IN THIRD CROWN PRINCE THIRD MOHAMMED THIRD BIN SALMAN'S THIRD RITZ CARLTON CRACKDOWN. THOUGH SALEH WAS FREED EARLY THIRD BY 2019, THIRD FORBES HAD DROPPED HIM THIRD FROM THE BILLIONAIRES LIST, THIRD AND HIS REPUTATION NEVER THIRD RECOVERED. WHEN HE DIED IN 2020, THIRD HIS SON ABDULLAH, THIRD WHO HAD HELPED THIRD BUILD THE COMPANY THIRD STEPPED IN AS CHAIRMAN. THIRD DALLAH AL BARAKA HOLDING THIRD RUNS OVER 100 THIRD COMPANIES THIRD IN 43 COUNTRIES THIRD WITH 60,000 EMPLOYEES, THIRD MAKING IT THIRD SAUDI ARABIA'S FIFTH-LARGEST COMPANY.