The arms dealer, the general's daughter and the speed demon: An inheritance battle

Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, up until his death in 1991. The legal battle that his third wife, the Syrian Nahed Tlass-Ojjeh, and his youngest son, a luxury car collector, have waged against the rest of the family could have been just a run-of-the-mill inheritance dispute. But its ramifications extend to matters of state.