Saudi Investment Company
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The Saudi Investment Company (SICO), headquartered Geneva, Switzerland and founded on May 19, 1980, represents the worldwide interests of the Saudi Binladin Group.
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[edit] Overview
The Geneva-based SICO is the parent house for the Group's international financial activities and investments, with branches in London and Curaçao. The Curacao branch, established in 1984, manages the bin Laden group's partnership with the American Daniels Realty Corporation (Duspic), part of the Fluor Corporation conglomerate. It is partly through the bin Ladens' influence that the Fluor group was one of the major recipients of reconstruction contracts in Kuwait.[1]
[edit] Personnel
The company is chaired by Yeslam bin Laden, a half-brother of the more famous Osama bin Laden. Board members include Beatrice Dufour (a sister-in-law of Yeslam), noted Swiss lawyer Baudoin Dunant, Charles Rochat, and Tilouine el Hanafi.