A HIGH-PROFILE American investor who enjoyed mingling with presidents and wheeling and dealing in global projects, including a major real estate project in Bahrain, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in the US.
Venture capitalist and political fundraiser Imaad Zuberi has been sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level US government officials, making illegal contributions, evading the payment of millions of dollars in taxes, and obstructing a federal investigation into the source of donations to a presidential inauguration committee .