Rapper Bushido
Success in court dispute with Arafat Abou-Chaker
Legal success for rapper Bushido.
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Bushido is said to have won in court against ex-business partner Arafat Abou-Chaker. The rapper is now entitled to a sum in the millions.
Rapper Bushido (44) has apparently achieved great success against Arafat Abou-Chaker in court. The Berlin Regional Court now sees it as proven that Abou-Chaker wrongly received manager payments from the musician. “Bild” quoted from the verdict: “Although the plaintiff (Arafat) was never active as a manager of the defendant (Bushido), the parties concluded a so-called management contract on January 30, 2007, in which the defendant appointed the plaintiff (called ‘Management ‘) entrusted with his representation and representation of interests.”
So Abou-Chaker was never Bushido’s legal manager and, as a direct result of this judgment, now has to repay a sum of over two million euros plus interest. In April of this year, Abou-Chaker was sentenced by the Berlin court to pay a little more than 2.2 million euros to his former business partner. A court spokeswoman for the news agency spot on news confirmed this at the time.
A default judgment was reached in April
Accordingly, the legal dispute at the Berlin Regional Court was about, among other things, “several invoices” that Abou-Chaker had submitted and “with which he wanted to claim a share of the defendant’s income,” explains the spokeswoman. He also wanted to receive information about Bushido’s expenses and income.
The rapper had in turn filed a counterclaim “which was essentially aimed at the repayment of shares in the defendant’s income”. Abou-Chaker was then ordered to pay a little more than 2.2 million euros plus interest. However, it was a default judgment, since Abou-Chaker had not submitted an application and Bushido’s side had applied for a corresponding decree. The judgment was therefore not yet final and Arafat had filed an appeal against it within the deadline. This is now no longer possible.