As Deadline reports, Dav Patel is set to headline and executive produce The Key Man, a limited series telling the story of disgraced financier Arif Naqvi. Set in the Middle East, the project hails from Miramax Television.
The series, based on real life events, is adapted from last year’s bestseller by WSJ reporters Simon Clark and Will Louch. The Key Man chronicles the debacle of Pakistani businessman, Arif Naqvi, the founder of Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Group. Patel will play the charismatic and sensational Naqvi who successfully defrauded unsuspecting investors for years before his luck ran out. Armed with spectacular brilliance and infectious charisma, Naqvi tricked some of the world's top elites including billionaire businessmen, politicians, and religious clerics into fraudulent investments under the guise that their money would help solve global issues such as hunger and poverty. He became his own undoing after he was unable to fulfill many of the lofty promises made to his investors which included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Naqvi has since received a prison sentence from the Dubai government and is awaiting extradition from the UK to the US to face further fraud charges.
While the official synopsis is yet to be released, we already know that Dev Patel will executive produce alongside Scott Delman (Station 11) and Florence Sloan (Dehli Crime) who had optioned the book.
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