GoldFinger Tracks Down Champagne-Spraying Private Banker

GoldFinger

15 November 2005

After a reliable tip-off GoldFinger can reveal the identity of the private banker who notched up a $70,000 bar bill in one night last August in London. A reliable source has told GoldFinger that Farid Pasha, the ex-UBS private banker who recently joined the private client department of a top US investment bank, was the man behind the champagne-spraying episode at one of London’s top nightclubs, Mo*vida. Mr Pasha had just been given a $5 million joining fee – a record in private banking – for his new job at the US investment bank and was determined to have a good time, according to sources. The Egyptian private banker, who is based in Monaco, is one of the top private bankers specializing in the Middle East and has top connections with many of the region’s richest families, according to sources. GoldFinger has also learnt the Mr Pasha’s father was a top Egyptian ambassador in the Middle East and had access to some of the most powerful figures in the region. No doubt very useful to his son as a private banker in the Middle East.