El dLa Provinca reported on Thursday the death of businessman Partap Valiram Harjani, founder of Valsons, one of the pioneers who arrived from Asia when the commercial triangulation of the Canary Islands On the islands the peseta was not of any type of convertibility and the operations were carried out through Tangier, he died this Thursday in Las Palmas although a good part of his business life was carried out in the south of Gran Canaria, where he was a supplier of multiple products in hotel chains and transformation industries in Arinaga and El Tablero. "He was very sincere when it came to making deals, if there was no product or it came with customs or freight problems, he was the first to say so, as is now the case with his heirs in the family business," said Tom Duesenberg, a Dutch businessman based in Maspalomas, on Wednesday when the news was announced. Valson is one of the partners in a service sector business in the south of Gran Canaria and a local partner of the NH Hotels chain in Canary Islands. Anil Partap is a member of the advisory board of Rethinking Africa UN Tourism.
Claude Van Varenberg, a Belgian businessman based in Mogán since 1986, said that "for everyone, joining the EU was a hard blow. I worked at the port of Las Palmas and always worked hand in hand with Mr. Harjani, who was where I met his son, Anil Partap, with whom we continue to work in our complexes at all levels because there is a word and there is honesty. When we had a bad time, with the 2008 crisis and the recent Covid19 crisis, there was no need to call them: the medical supplies were here without extra costs and without payment problems." The port businessman from Las Palmas, Manuel León, from Intercop, said that "one of the businessmen who best knew the entire triangulation of the Canary Islands with Europe and Africa has left us, as well as always being a promoter of alliances accompanied by knowledge of the international market, he knew a lot."
Anil Partap's father died this Thursday at the age of 93 at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, La Provincia reported. His relatives have thanked Partap for the "magnificent" treatment given by the Canarian Health Service (SCS) and the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria. They also extend their gratitude to "Patricia Borges, who made it possible for my father to live 20 more years with only one kidney and at 20%," said the son of the deceased. Anil's father lived the last 26 years of his life with his son, before ending his last days in palliative care. He defines his father as "an extraordinary person, husband, father and grandfather."
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