updated Tue. April 23, 2024
-
Telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2017
Sitting alone in his tiny cell in the African state of Equatorial Guinea, one of Simon Mann's constant fears was that at any point he might be taken out and shot. The other was that he would be driven mad by the months of solitary confinement to which he had been sentenced for his part in the notorious 2004Ãâà...
Sputnik International
June 27, 2017
The 65-year-old mercenary also accused others of being involved in the new plot, including anti-corruption NGO Transparency International lawyer William Bourdon, exiled Equatorial Guinean opposition leader Severo Moto and Lebanese oil magnate Ely Calil. "I explained to the president [Teodoro] itÃâà...
The Times
June 26, 2017
He said that the other people plotting to overthrow the president were Ely Calil, a Lebanese businessman; Severo Moto Nsa, Equatorial Guinea's opposition leader; and William Bourdon, the lawyer for Transparency International, the anti-corruption group. “I concluded a pact with President Obiang.
Views and News from Norway
August 31, 2016
Also reported to be presenting evidence for the first time is Ely Calil, who controlled a company that DN reported was involved in Yara's payments to the son of high-ranking Indian bureaucrat Jivtesh Singh Maini. DN has reported that the son, Gurpretesh Singh Maini, received USD 1 million from Yara, whichÃâà...
OZY
July 4, 2016
Ely Calil, whose father, George, founded an oil empire in Nigeria, is one of the richest men in Britain. Carlos Ghosn, who is French-Lebanese-Brazilian, is the chief executive of French carmaker Renault and Japanese carmaker Nissan.) But increasingly, a slice of this highly successful community is turningÃâà...
CounterPunch
May 9, 2014
In 2002 Ely Calil was the middleman between Elf Aquitaine, a French oil company, and Sani Abacha, the Nigerian dictator. Elf was bribing Abacha to get preferential treatment for oil drilling in a country that is a poster child for what some on the left call the resource curse. Calil and two other LebaneseÃâà...
The Economist
December 1, 2011
Ely Calil, a Lebanese tycoon who has admitted that he funded the Equatorian opposition leader, Severo Moto, and introduced him to Mr Mann, is referred to as “the Boss”. The part played by Jeffrey Archer, a thriller-writer and disgraced British peer, is unmentioned. Despite its labyrinth of names and places,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 3, 2009
Ely Calil could have been a character from a Jeffrey Archer best-seller. Ely Calil, who is worth an estimated Ãâã100 million fortune, could have been a character from one of his friend Jeffrey Archer's best-sellers. Andrew Pierce. By Andrew Pierce. 3:36PM GMT 03 Nov 2009. Unlike Lord Archer, he hates being in the public eyeÃâà...
Harper's Magazine (blog)
February 18, 2009
I have an article in the March issue of the magazine about Ely Calil, a London-based international oil fixer (and friend, as I note in the story). Calil is one of the most interesting people I've met, and the story traces the arc of his career: Calil belongs to a small group of middlemen, a few dozen at most,
Telegraph.co.uk
July 8, 2008
Ely Calil profile. Ely Claude Alan Calil was born in Nigeria to Lebanese parents in December 1945. 8:50AM BST 08 Jul 2008. He was privately educated in Europe attending Beaumont College and Oxford University. He was just 20 when his father, who had built up a lucrative ground nut oil business, died leaving a fortuneÃâà...
Independent
June 19, 2008
Simon Mann has insisted at his trial that he was "only a junior member" of a team plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea and would have ended up as just a glorified security manager after regime change. He claimed that the "real leader", the London-based businessman Eli Calil, thought of himself asÃâà...
Independent
June 19, 2008
Simon Mann has insisted at his trial that he was "only a junior member" of a team plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea and would have ended up as just a glorified security manager after regime change. He claimed that the "real leader", the London-based businessman Eli Calil, thought of himself asÃâà...
|
news and opinion
|
