Arif Masood Naqvi (born 13 July 1960 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a businessman and convicted finance fraudster who was sentenced in 2019 for three years in the United Arab Emirates for financial fraud.
Previously, he was arrested on the 5th of April 2019 in the UK on US fraud charges after allegedly misappropriating $230 million from a healthcare fund.He founded The Abraaj Group, a private equity investor that operated in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Turkey, and Central Asia, in 2002.
In 2018, he was accused by investors of misappropriating funds, leading to the provisional liquidation of The Abraaj Group..
The company is also under investigation by Dubai regulators.