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Calling Out To All Workers, Rony Jabour, Extending OSH Awareness

Published

5 years ago

November 5, 2020

Time. Dedication. Hard work. Struggles- all of these are a small insider to what it takes for a person to carry their personal and professional lives together. There are so many things that an individual has to compromise over to ensure that they are performing well at both ends. Family time, personal hobbies, sleep cycle, and sometimes, even education is compromised. But most of the time, the things that are overlooked are related directly to the individual’s well-being. Especially, their health and safety.

Most of the time, individuals are expected to give long hours without any breaks, which in turn affects their health. Every individual is exposed to various dangers in their workplaces, especially those who work in construction. Part of the reason why people overlook these safety measures is that they don’t have the time to follow them or forget them. But most of the time, the reason why people ignore the safety regulations is that they are unaware of its cruciality.

Because of this lack of knowledge, people face accidents and even lose their lives. To help people learn what the basics of these health and safety regulations are along with why they are important, people like Rony Jabour are working day and night.

Rony Jabour is an Authorized OSHA Safety trainer and safety motivational speaker who is incessantly working to help people take care of themselves. Starting from 2008 to this very day, Rony Jabour has trained over 15,000 people! His work in the line of duty during the time of the pandemic is also commendable.

Originally born in Brazil, Rony Jabour moved to the U.S in 2004. Prior to that, he was a student at the Cleres Martins Moreira and Marista, after which he was enrolled in Instituto Federal do Espirito Santo. His completion of education marked the start of his career as a construction worker in the United States.

After moving there, Rony Jabour spent a good eight years in the construction industry. There, Rony Jabour learned a great deal of stuff, and he got to learn several things about himself as well. Besides developing leadership skills, Rony Jabour also began noticing that his colleagues paid no attention to health and safety measures. Beyond anything, he was worried for every single one of them, and decided to take up the charge of helping his colleagues follow health and safety measures himself.

Every morning, he would make sure that each one of them had taken proper measures to protect themselves from dangers and threats. This was when Rony Jabour decided to take things up a notch. He decided to get certified so that he could practice helping everyone professionally.

In 2008, Rony Jabour joined Keene State College and got admitted to the OSHA Training Institute. There he took several courses and performed well at all of them. His skills and hard work paid off when he earned several certifications, including Safety and Health Official in General Industry, Safety and Health Official in Construction, Guide to Industrial Hygiene, and several others.

After Rony Jabour was certified, he opened his school, United Safety Net. The school aims to spread awareness about the various hazards and threats at workplaces and how to reduce accidents by practicing health and safety measures.

Rony Jabour offers training courses in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and today, it has become the largest OSHA training institute in the U.S. The school certifies over 2000 students every year.

Rony also started delivering health and safety speeches. His fun-loving personality and his ability to joke around have made people love his way of teaching, which is why he has become one of the most requested OSH trainers in all of the U.S!

In 2013, Rony was invited by the United States Department of Labor to extend his knowledge about the importance of safety at the workplace. In 2012, he delivered a speech at Harvard University. He was also given a certificate for his efforts by. 4 years later, he was invited by the Department of Labor again, and his speech proved to be quite helpful in gaining insights for the people.

Rony also got himself certified during the pandemic and used his knowledge to educate people about the safety and health measures to protect themselves from the COVID crisis. His work throughout the crisis earned him a credible reputation. Because of his efforts, he has become the number 1 authorized OSHA Safety Trainer in New England.

Today, Rony Jabour holds a master’s degree from the University of Texas Arlington – Uta. He is also delivering regular speeches to raise awareness throughout the world!

My goal is to ensure that each parent returns home safely, for their loved ones, who are the most important.

Rony Jabour

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TRG Chairman Khaishgi and CEO Aslam implicated in $150 million fraud

Published

6 days ago

June 23, 2025

Jenny Jackson

In a scathing 52-page decision, the Sindh High Court has found that TRG Pakistan’s management was acting fraudulently and that Bermuda-based Greentree Holdings historic and prospective purchase of TRG shares were illegal, fraudulent and oppressive.

The Sindh High Court has further directed TRGP to immediately hold board elections that have been overdue and illegally withheld by the existing board since January 14, 2025.

In the landmark ruling, the Sindh High Court has blocked the attempted takeover of TRG Pakistan Limited by Greentree Holdings, declaring that the shares acquired by Greentree, nearly 30% of TRG’s stock, were unlawfully financed using TRG’s funds in violation of Section 86(2) of the Companies Act 2017.

“Having concluded that the affairs of TRGP are being conducted in an unlawful and fraudulent manner and in a manner oppressive to members such as the Petitioner (Zia Chishti), the case falls for corrective orders under sub-section (2) of section 286 of the Companies Act,” Justice Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry concluded.

The case was brought by TRGP former CEO and founder Pakistani-American technology entrepreneur Zia Chishti against TRG Pakistan, its associate TRG International and TRG International’s wholly-owned shell company Greentree Limited. In addition, the case named AKD Securities for managing Greentree’s illegal tender offer as well as various regulators requiring that they act to perform their regulatory duties.

The case centred around the dispute that shell company Greentree Limited was fraudulently using TRG Pakistan’s own funds to purchase TRG Pakistan’s shares in order to give control to Zia Chishti’s former partners Mohammed Khaishgi, Hasnain Aslam and Pinebridge Investments.

According to the case facts, the Chairman of TRG Pakistan Mohammed Khaishgi and the CEO of TRG Pakistan Hasnain Aslam masterminded the $150 million fraud. They did so together with Hong Kong based fund manager Pinebridge who has two nominees on TRG Pakistan’s board, Mr. John Leone and Mr. Patrick McGinnis.

According to the court papers, Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis set up a shell company called Greentree which they secretly controlled and from which they started buying up shares of TRG Pakistan. The fraud was that Greentree was using TRG Pakistan’s funds itself. The idea was to give Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis control over TRG Pakistan even though they owned less than 1% of the company, lawyers of the petitioner told the court.

This was all part of a broader battle for control over TRG Pakistan that is raging between Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis on one side and TRG Pakistan founder Zia Chishti on the other side. Zia Chishti has been trying to retake control of TRG Pakistan after he was forced to resign in 2021 based on sexual misconduct allegations made by a former employee of his. This year those allegations were shown to be without basis in litigation that Chishti launched in the United Kingdom against The Telegraph newspaper which had printed the allegations. The Telegraph was forced to apologize for 13 separate articles it published about Chishti and paid him damages and legal costs.

After Chishti resigned in 2021, Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis moved to take total control over TRG Pakistan and its various subsidiaries including TRG International and to block out Chishti. The Sindh High Court’s ruling today has reversed that effort, ruling the scheme fraudulent, illegal, and oppressive.

It now appears that Zia Chishti will take control of TRG Pakistan in short order when elections are called. He and his family are now the largest shareholders with over 30% interest. He is closely followed by companies related to Jahangir Siddiqui & Company which have over a 20% interest. The result appears to be a complete vindication for Zia Chishti and damning for his rivals Aslam, Khaishgi, Leone, and McGinnis who have been ruled to have been conducting a fraud.

TRG Pakistan’s share price declined by over 8% on the news on heavy volume. Market experts say that this was because the tender offer at Rs 75 was gone and that now shares would trade closer to their natural value. Presently the shares are trading at Rs 59 per share.

According to the court ruling, since 2021, shell company Greentree had purchased approximately 30% of TRG shares using $80 million of TRG’s own money, which means that that the directors of TRG Pakistan allowed company assets to be funneled through offshore affiliates TRG International and Greentree for acquiring TRG’s shares – a move deemed both fraudulent and oppressive to minority shareholders. The Sindh High Court also found illegal Greentree’s further attempt to purchase another 35% of TRG shares using another $70 million of TRG’s money in a tender offer.

The ruling is a major victory for the tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti against his former partners and the legal ruling paves the way for him to take control of TRG in a few weeks.