Terrorists, arms dealers and the Mafia: Vancouver entrepreneur sues American conspiracy theory blog to clear his name
By Dan Fumano, The Province
April 13, 2015
A defamation suit filed by Vancouver entrepreneur and philanthropist Altaf Nazerali went to trial Monday in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
Photograph by: Arlen Redekop , Province
Stories heard Monday in B.C. Supreme Court contained sensational elements: international intrigue and espionage, Colombian drug cartels and the Italian Cosa Nostra, arms dealers and al-Qaida operatives. The name of Osama bin Laden came up more than once.
But those stories, say a well-known Vancouver businessman named in many of them, are fiction.
Monday in Vancouver, a judge heard the opening day of a trial stemming from a defamation suit filed by Vancouver-based entrepreneur and philanthropist Altaf Nazerali.
The trial, scheduled for three weeks, is the culmination of nearly four years of Nazerali’s efforts to protect his reputation from an alleged campaign of online defamation, and what he says are “terrible and utterly false” allegations about him.