Saif Durbar

Saif Durbar (born 1961 ) is an Indian-born Pakistani-Central African businessman, investor, and property developer. He served as a key adviser to the former presidents of the Central African Republic Ange Felix Patasse and François Bozizé. From 2008 to 2009, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Central African Republic.

Durbar is the founder and chief executive officer of Girc, Bridge Africa Counselage, and founder of philanthropic organisation Kutamani, which provides educational tools for students in Africa.

In 2005, Dubar along with Paul Bloomfield, announced the US$13 billion (£7.4 billion) partnership between Bovis Lend Lease and Foster & Partners to develop a new city in Saudi Arabia which included a plan for 750,000 new homes.

In 2006, Durbar became an advisor to President François Bozizé, and in 2009 was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Controversies Durbar was the adviser of François Bozize, when the Canadian company Uramin acquired 90 percent of the Bakouma uranium mine.

In 2007, the French state-owned nuclear company Areva purchased Uramin and its mines for 1.8 billion euros. According to Durbar, the acquisition took place without notification of change of ownership to the CAR government who owned 15 percent of Uramin. Durbar advised the government to appoint lawyers to give notice to Areva to justify the transaction. The mines were later proved unusable because of their low uranium concentration and the expensive logistics involved, which Areva's CEO Anne Lauvergeon was aware of at the time of the purchase of Uramin. He still works in Africa and other parts of the world with a focus on mining, infrastructure, real estate and the oil sectors.

In 2014, Vincent Crouzet published a book Radioactive about the Uramin scandal with Saif Durbar as one of the main protagonists and a key witness.