Richard paniguian biography
Richard paniguian biography
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Richard Paniguian
Oil industry executive and government fixer
Sir Richard Leon Paniguian CBE (28 July 1949 – 25 June 2017) was a British oil industry executive with ties to British intelligence.[1] As described in an obituary for The Telegraph, Paniguian was a long-time troubleshooter and project manager for British Petroleum in some of its most challenging territories.[2]
He was also notable for his involvement in negotiating the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted in 2001 of organising the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.[1]
Early life
Paniguian's father, Hracia, known to friends as 'Pan', was a leading figure in British intelligence, a veteran of the Special Operations Executive, and an expert in psychological warfare who eventually settled into a career in advertising.[1] He had been born in Constantinople in 1903 during the last years of the Ottoman Empire; the family name was of Armenian origin.
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