Pascal Najadi

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Pascal Najadi
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Born (1967-08-20) August 20, 1967 (age 57)
Lucerne, Switzerland
Occupations
  • Investment banker
  • investor
  • philanthropist
  • producer
  • writer

Pascal Najadi (born August 20, 1967) is a retired Swiss investment banker, film maker, author, and the son of Hussain Najadi. He currently works as a bitcoin activist. [1] He is best known for producing movies like Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair (in 2006). [2] He also produced Rebel News (2015), and National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) (2023). [3]

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He sued Swiss president Alain Berset for allegedly abusing his office and making false statements on Swiss television regarding COVID-19. [4] The case was dismissed. [5]

Biography

Najadi was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, on August 20, 1967, to Bahraini financier Hussain Najadi [6] and Swiss Heidi Anderhub-Minger, a direct descendant of former Swiss Federal Counsel and Swiss President Rudolf Minger. [7] He finished his early education at the Military Service and School in Switzerland, then pursued economics at Institut auf dem Rosenberg, St. Gallen, Switzerland. [8]

Career

In 1989, Najadi began working as a public relations assistant for Klaus J. Stöhlker at Klaus J. Stöhlker AG in Zollikon, Switzerland. Later that year, he was hired as an account executive for sales of open-end mutual funds to Swiss banks by Orbitex Finanz AG in Zurich, Switzerland. [1]

From 1993 until 2003, Najadi served as a management board member at Dresdner Bank, London and was in charge of capital markets business covering Central Europe, Central Asia, the Russian Federation, Africa and the Middle East . [9] [10]

After his father Hussain Najadi was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur in 2013, he claimed that the Malaysian government and president covered his father's murderers. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

In 2023, Najadi filed a civil case against Pfizer in New York, alleging harm from the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. [16]

On October 27, 2023, he claimed he was appointed Ambassador-at-large by the "Conseil gouvernemental de l'Etat de Savoie", which self-declared the "Independence of the State of Savoie" from France. The claim has no legal legitimacy, and the Savoie remains a department of France. As with that claim Najadis title is completely fictitious.

In 2023, he affirmed during a meeting in support of Chloé Frammery that justice had dismissed a complaint filed against Alain Berset, whom he held responsible for an illness that he contracted following his vaccination against COVID-19. [17]

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