Artur Albarran

Artur Manuel de Oliveira Rodrigues Albarran (born in England on January 16, 1953) is a Portuguese journalist and entrepreneur.
Professional life.
Raised in Mozambique, where his father was an entrepreneur for cutting and processing exotic woods, Artur Albarran settled in Portugal at the age of 18. He started his professional career at Rádio Clube Português at the same time, full of future promises from the voiceover: Cândido Mota, José Nuno Martins, Joaquim Furtado, Jaime Fernandes or Júlio Isidro. 
After April 25, 1974, he became an extreme left activist, in the ideological area of the Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado, the organization founded by Carlos Antunes and Isabel do Carmo, in 1973, by dissent with the PCP. The experience would bring an accusation to him in one of the processes of the Revolutionary Brigades. He then fled to France, being tried in absentia, but free of charges.
From France he went to England, where he worked at the BBC, also starting a collaboration on the ITV's World in Action reporting program. He travels to the United States and Brazil, returning to Portugal in 1980.
Admitted to RTP, he is part of the founding team of Grande Reportagem and stands out as a special envoy to the Gulf War in early 1991. As a war reporter, he follows the conflict in Somalia in 1992, when American forces entered that country, to try to end the civil war. He also assumes the leadership of the editorial staff of RTP1 and RTP2. In 1988 he launched for the newspaper "O Século Ilustrado", of which he became director.
With the advent of private television, Albarran moved to TVI in 1993 as an information presenter.
In 1996, he abandoned information when accepting an invitation from SIC. This season presents entertainment programs such as The Chair of Power, Real Images and Chained (in 2001).
In 1997 he accepted the challenge of a group of North American businessmen and politicians to head his business in Portugal. At the head of these politicians and businessmen is Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defence of USA, CIA director and former ambassador to Portugal after April 25. In this way, he moved away from television and became the CEO of EuroAmer, a real estate holding company, whose chairman was Frank Carlucci, belonging to the Carlyle Group.
In 2005, with the closing of EuroAmer, Albarran would be the target of an investigation by the Portuguese Public Prosecutor, suspected of money laundering and falsification of documents. He was presented to a judge by the Judiciary Police on suspicion of economic crimes and money laundering, but there was never an indictment. After being presented to a judge, Albarran was free to leave the court only with the obligation of providing his identity and residence address. After seven years, the case was dismissed.
Currently Albarran lives between Raz Al Khaima (UAE), India, Angola and South Africa. Albarran left Portugal some time after triggering the investigation to the company Euroamer SGPS, of which he was CEO under the chairmanship of Frank Carlucci.
Personal life.
He was married to Lisa Hardy, a German who has two daughters. After the separation, Albarran retained the parental power of the daughters who were taken by Lisa to Germany, taking advantage of a weekend visit before Christmas 2008.
In 2011 he was diagnosed with leukemia. He underwent a bone marrow autotransplantation. And in July 2012, in the final stretch of treatment at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology, he publicly reappeared with his wife Sandra Nobre, apparently recovered.