{"id":4482,"date":"2015-05-22T19:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2015-05-22T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:24:28","slug":"kuwaits-wealthiest-man-khorafi-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/kuwaits-wealthiest-man-khorafi-dies-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait\u2019s wealthiest man Khorafi dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kuwait\u2019s-wealthiest-man-Khorafi-dies-at-75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4483\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kuwait\u2019s-wealthiest-man-Khorafi-dies-at-75.jpg\" alt=\"Kuwait\u2019s wealthiest man Khorafi dies at 75\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Kuwait&#8217;s richest independent businessman, Jassem al-Khorafi, who served as speaker of the Gulf emirate&#8217;s parliament for a decade, has died at the age of 75, his family said today.<br \/>\nKuwaiti media said he had suffered a heart attack while flying home from a private visit to Turkey.<br \/>\nKhorafi served as speaker from 1999 to 2011. He was the finance minister from 1985 to 1986.<br \/>\nHe and his siblings inherited their wealth from their father Mohammed al-Khorafi who established Al-Khorafi Group in 1956.<br \/>\nThe family business developed into the financial, telecommunications and industrial sectors, and it is now estimated to be worth more than USD 10 billion.<br \/>\nKhorafi&#8217;s funeral was to be held later today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/kuwaits-wealthiest-man-khorafi-dies-at-75\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait&#8217;s richest independent businessman, Jassem al-Khorafi, who served as speaker of the Gulf emirate&#8217;s parliament for a decade, has died at the age of 75, his family said today. Kuwaiti media said he had suffered a heart attack while flying home from a private visit to Turkey. Khorafi served as speaker from 1999 to 2011. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}