Anil Bhoyrul

He was born in Mauritius He graduated in Civil Engineering in 1988. ==BusinessAge and Sunday Business==

Bhoyrul started working in civil engineering but soon switched to journalism. In 1993 he joined BusinessAge magazine under its editor and owner Tom Rubython, becoming deputy editor the following year. and failed within a year; the Barclay brothers finalised a deal to buy it from the receivers in August 1997. Meanwhile, BusinessAge had struggled under VNU and was closed in June 1996. Bhoyrul saw that he did not fit in the plans of the new regime at the Sunday Business and with a consortium of investors led by Oyston bought BusinessAge back from VNU. promising "to take the title back to its glossy, controversial and scandalous best. We’ll probably ruin a few careers along the way, but only if they deserve it". after he was convicted of raping a teenager in 1997. Chris Butt took over as editor in 1998, when Oyston sold to Priory Publishing. == City Slickers scandal ==

Bhoyrul and BusinessAge colleague James Hipwell they wrote a share-tipping column called "City Slickers". They bought shares before tipping them in the newspaper, in 44 separate incidents between 1 August 1999 and 29 February 2000. Bhoyrul pleaded guilty to the conspiracy on 11 August 2005. He was convicted on charges of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act 1986 and sentenced to 180 hours of community service. Hipwell denied the charges and three months in prison respectively. == Punch, Express and ITP ==

After they were sacked from the Daily Mirror in 2000, They wrote a book "for Mirror readers, not your sophisticated types" He wrote 26 negative stories about Conrad Black in the Sunday Express between September 2001 and May 2003, including one questioning Black's finances that the newspaper subsequently admitted was false. In May 2003 he wrote to Piers Morgan apologising for articles he had written under various pseudonyms in the Sunday Express :"Nothing would make me happier than not having to write all this stuff, but then nobody else pays me £6k a month...the thinking behind that column comes as you can guess from people above me". In 2004 he moved to Dubai to become editor of Arabian Business, a weekly English-language magazine published by ITP Media Group. He left the magazine suddenly in 2005 he is CEO of JES Media in Dubai. == Personal life ==

Bhoyrul is married to Branka, a Slovenian photographer. They have three children - Joe, Evita and Savannah. In 2018, worried that his children were becoming too spoilt and materialistic in Dubai, he got them to each throw a dart at a world map and as a result sent them to live in La Paz, Bolivia for two years. He is a fan of Arsenal F.C. ==References==