Financier boasted of his ties to bikers - thestar.com: "Following the Star's publication Thursday of a story linking Rahim Jaffer to Gillani, dozens of people who claim they were burned by Gillani called to vent their anger. Two groups of businessmen have made complaints to police. And on Gillani's International Strategic Initiatives website, the list of eight employees dropped to two overnight (just Gillani and his vice-president, ex-Argo Mike Mihelic).
So how did Gillani and Jaffer, a Tory politician, meet in the first place?
Both men are Ismaili Muslims. Gillani's family is one of a group of well-off, financially astute businessmen in Toronto. Jaffer was introduced to Gillani's family – it's not known by whom – in 2008 and they struck up a friendship that involved dinners and trips to Club Paradise, a strip club on Bloor St. Whether Jaffer knew of his new friend's background is unclear. For the past three weeks the Star has tried to get both men to discuss their relationship, to no avail.
As the Star reported this week, both men discussed Jaffer's ability to provide businesses with government 'green grants' at various business meetings, one with a trio of high-class escorts.
According to one source (a businessman who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to Gillani), Gillani remarked in October that he was 'out with Helena Guergis and Rahim' at a dinner. This was about three weeks after Jaffer was charged with speeding, drunk driving and cocaine possession. Whether Guergis knew about Gillani's background is also unclear."
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