How to have it all and blow it with greed

Amazing story of how it took SEC 10-years to pin down Greenwich PE fund Oak Investment Partners partner Iftikar Ahmed who is now a fugitive. (link inside the post).

Harvard, Goldman Sachs, Venture Capital…Fugitive

Iftikar Ahmed appeared to be an immigrant success story, but prosecutors and regulators allege he stole $65 million

A boyish 43 years old, Iftikar Ahmed ticked every box of the immigrant success story, going from Harvard Business School to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and then landing as a partner at one of the oldest venture-capital firms in the country. He and his wife owned a mansion in Greenwich, Conn., and two apartments on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and gave large sums to local and Indian charities.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-goldman-sachs-venture-capitalfugiti…

The whole SEC case can be found here: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp23260.pdf

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Finished reading the story....wow, you would think at this point VCs and PEs that established would have a stronger internal controls process...but that's life I guess.

 

Can someone post cliffs of the story? No WSJ subscription :/

You know you've been working too hard when you stop dreaming about bottles of champagne and hordes of naked women, and start dreaming about conditional formatting and circular references.
 

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