Umar Farooq Zahoor

Umar Farooq Zahoor (born October 26, 1975) is a Norwegian businessman. He was convicted of embezzlement in 2003.
Early life
Zahoor was born and raised in Oslo, Norway, the second son of 15 children to Pakistani merchant parents.
In 2003, Zahoor and New Zealand native Shaun Gregory Morgan started a fictitious bank in Zürich, Switzerland, called Banque Internationale. Zahoor was sentenced to a year in prison for aggravated embezzlement, and by 2007 was wanted by Interpol, as he never served the sentence. At that point, Swiss authorities had stopped searching for him. As reported by Verdens Gang, The pair defrauded 27 people for over 120 million kroner through the fictitious bank.
In 2015, the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang reported that Zahoor was involved in a $510 million (USD) energy deal between Ameri Group and the government of Ghana. The government was advised to renegotiate the deal after a report commissioned by the energy minister of Ghana found it to be overpriced by $150 million, and possibly fraudulent. Zahoor, the former CEO of Ameri, was said to have signed the deal as a director.
Personal life
In 2006, Zahoor married Pakistani actress Sofia Mirza. They have twin daughters. After the marriage ended in 2009, Mirza was granted custody of their children, and for fear that Zahoor might take them out of Pakistan, they were included on a list of people who could not leave the country. Despite this, Zahoor was able to bring his children out of Pakistan by using falsified passports.<ref name="rwideroe121910"/> He is based in Dubai.

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