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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Abdul Razzak Yaqoob<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|05|07|df=y}}<ref name="Dawn: ARY died">{{cite news|title=ARY Founder Haji Abdul Razzaq passes away|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1088538/ary-founder-haji-abdul-razzaq-passes-away|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Surat]], [[Gujarat]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|02|21|1944|05|07|df=y}}<ref name="Dawn: ARY died"/><br />
| death_place = [[London]], United Kingdom<br />
| nationality = Pakistani<br />
}}<br />
'''Abdul Razzak Yaqoob ''' (7 May 1944 – 21 February 2014) was a [[Pakistani]] gold [[bullion]] trader who founded ARY Gold in the United Arab Emirates and later [[ARY Media Group]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
He was born in [[Surat]], [[British India]] to [[Memon people|Memon]] family in 1944 which later migrated to [[Karachi]] after partition.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1088706|title=Founder of ARY Group passes away|first=The Newspaper's Staff|last=Reporter|date=22 February 2014|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)}}</ref><br />
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==Business career==<br />
Yakoob moved to the United Arab Emirates in the 1960s and started gold business with an outlet in Dubai. He founded ARY Group in 1972 and launched a private television channel [[ARY Digital]] in 2000.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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He was associated with the ''ARY Gold bribery case'' in which he paid a bribe to then Finance Minister of Pakistan [[Asif Ali Zardari]] to get exclusive rights to import and trade gold in Pakistan.<ref name="auto"/> In January 1994, Schlegelmilch established a British Virgin Island based named Capricorn Trading, with Zardari as its owner.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/09/world/house-graft-tracing-bhutto-millions-special-report-bhutto-clan-leaves-trail.html|title=HOUSE OF GRAFT: Tracing the Bhutto Millions -- A special report.; Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption|first=John F.|last=Burns|work=New York Times}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
He died on 21 February 2014 in [[London]], United Kingdom.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1944 births]]<br />
[[Category:2014 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani company founders]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani industrialists]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates]]<br />
[[Category:Bribery]]<br />
[[Category:Government of Benazir Bhutto]]<br />
[[Category:ARY Digital Network people]]<br />
[[Category:Memon people]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani people of Gujarati descent]]<br />
[[Category:Businesspeople from Dubai]]<br />
[[Category:Businesspeople from Karachi]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani mass media owners]]<br />
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