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A 7-star hotel furnished with gold, a massive yacht worth over Rs 5,163 Crore — All about the riches of Man City owner Sheikh Mansour

By Gaurav Sonavane

Manchester City F.C. created history on Saturday evening (May 20, 2023) when they won their third consecutive Premier League title after rivals Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest. The Pep Guardiola -managed side lifted their fifth Premier League title in six years after registering 11 back-to-back wins after their game against Chelsea on Sunday.

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Sharing his excitement, Man City captain Ilkay Gundogan told BBC , " The Premier League is, without doubt, the most demanding and competitive league in the world, so that tells you everything about what an achievement this is. To have won this trophy three times in a row and five times in six years is incredible. That quality and consistency helps sum up what Manchester City stand for and ensures the club will continue to strive for success going forward. "

The English football club edged out its competition and won the coveted titles seven times since Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mansour's company City Football Group took over Manchester City in 2008. The English club has undergone a massive transformation under the Emirati royal's ownership, and the exceptional Manchester City side is just two wins away from landing the treble (if they defeat Manchester United and Inter Milan in FA Cup and Champions League finals, respectively).

Given City's dominance in the football leagues, Sheikh Mansour has undoubtedly secured his position as one of the most successful owners of all time.

All you need to know about Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour who has a net worth of Rs 24,866 Crore

A member of the ruling family of UAE (House of Nahyan), Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, also known as Sheikh Mansour is estimated to have a net worth of $30 billion (approximately Rs 24,866 crore), according to Celebrity Net Worth . The billionaire royal is also the Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE. He is also the owner of Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) - an investment company that took over Manchester City F.C. in September 2008.

Sheikh Mansour is a member of the House of Nahyan which has a collective net worth estimated to be around £560 billion (approximately Rs 5,78,198 crore). According to Mirror , Sheikh Mansour splurged around £42 million (approximately Rs 433 crore) to buy a luxurious Spanish estate spread over 20,000 acres of land in 2016.

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According to The Sun , Sheikh Mansour and his family own the super-luxurious Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi as well. Billed as one of the world's only seven-star hotel - the property which comes with 394 rooms that includes 22 residential suits is reportedly furnished with gold. The same report also suggests that the Hollywood movie Fast and Furious 7 was shot at this ultra-premium hotel.

Sheikh Mansour splashed a whopping £500 million (approximately Rs 5,163 crore) on a 525 feet mega-yacht in 2022 and named it Blue as a tribute to his Premier League team - Manchester City F.C. According to The Sun, the yacht owned by Sheikh Mansour has 40 cabins, entertaining decks, swimming pool, two helipads and a club. The report also suggests that the Man City owner had loaned his mega-yacht (fourth largest in the world) to his Oscar-winning friend and actor Leonardo DiCaprio to host a party for his close friends in 2014.

The royal billionaire loves swanky wheels. From owning five Bugatti Veyron to Porsche 911 GT1 worth around £3 million (approximately Rs 30 crore), the long list of super-expensive and luxurious wheels parked in Sheikh Mansour's garage would leave you stunned.

According to The Sun , Sheikh Mansour, who has a staggering net worth of $30 billion (approximately Rs 24,866 crore), has invested in nearly 50 companies worldwide, including Richard Branson's space tourism firm Virgin Galactic, Ferrari and Daimler AG (Mercedes).

Apart from Manchester City F.C, Sheikh Mansour company City Football Group has invested in multiple football clubs around the globe. The list includes New York City FC, Melbourne City FC, Yokohama F. Marinos, Girona FC and Club Athletico Torque.

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Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrives in Bodrum aboard $600-million mega yacht

One of these yachts is valued at an astounding $600 million, while the other holds a value of $200 million.while guards and an ambulance are kept on standby on land for sheikh mansour , the coast guard spent the entire day patrolling around the yachts. this grand spectacle underscores the opulence of the occasion..

UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrives in Bodrum by his newly acquired mega yacht.

UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has made a grand entrance in Bodrum with his mega yacht, which he acquired last year. Unable to fit in the marina due to its massive size, Sheikh Mansour's yacht, measuring 160 meters in length and valued at $600 million, anchored off the coast of Yalıkavak .

The yacht, named "Blue," the fifth-largest superyacht in the world owned by the Sheikh, was specially constructed in Germany. This eight-deck vessel boasts two helicopter pads, three swimming pools, a gym, a jacuzzi, and even a cinema.

Given the attention drawn by the colossal yacht, special police protection and an ambulance were placed on standby in Yalıkavak for Sheikh Mansour . Throughout the day, the Coast Guard patrolled around the yacht.

Furthermore, the renowned billionaire brought another mega yacht named "Mar" alongside the massive yacht. Constant activity was observed between the two vessels. It's reported that Mar, with an estimated value of $200 million, has an annual operational cost of around $20 million. The weekly charter fee for the yacht is purportedly $1.8 million.

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Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan took advantage of the summer break in European football to treat himself to a small gift.

It is an impressive yacht, valued at 600 million dollars, and considered as one of the most expensive in the world.

At 160 meters long, his yacht is 55 metres longer than Manchester City 's stadium, the Etihad.

Its interior has 40 cabins, which can accommodate up to 48 people.

It also has a swimming pool, gyms, massage room, restaurants and two helipads and a sun deck for each cabin, regardless of its location on the ship.

It takes more than half a million dollars to run this luxury vessel, just to fill up the fuel tank.

A project the size of Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed's ego

According to The Sun, in the future there will only be only two mega yachts in the world that are bigger than his.

This is not the first mega-yacht the sheikh has owned. A few years ago, he owned one costing more than 3.50 billion dollars, at 150 metres long.

He even lent it to Leonardo DiCaprio to enjoy his stay in Brazil while he watched the World Cup in 2014.

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It costs a whopping $640,000 just to fuel up Abu Dhabi royal family member Sheikh Mansour’s $600 million megayacht, which is enough to buy a 2-bed apartment in Manhattan and two Tesla Model S cars. At 525 feet long ‘Blue’ is the fourth largest yacht in the world.

Note – As of writing this article, according to a Zillow listing this two bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s 57th street is available for $460,000. A Tesla Model S starts at $88,000.

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Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s luxury yacht was docked in Turkey on Thursday.

And according to an Anadolu Agency report, it was refuelled during it’s time spent at the Marmaris Port at a cost of around £380,000!

Mansour’s 149-metre long yacht, Topaz, is thought to be worth around £342 million and is one of the top 10 most expensive in the world.

It takes 730,000 litres of fuel to fill up Topaz – a process which takes around five hours to complete.

The yacht originally tried to stop at the Marmaris marina – but it was too large and had to be redirected to the Marmaris Port.

There are 50 staff on board, six luxury suites, a heliport and numerous swimming pools and meeting halls.

Anyone concerned his money may dry up should probably think again.

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Leonardo masterpiece 'being kept on Saudi prince's yacht'

Report of Salvator Mundi’s whereabouts confirms trend for great artworks to be displayed aboard billionaires’ superyachts

The world’s most expensive artwork – Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Salvator Mundi – has reportedly been installed on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s superyacht.

The location of the painting has been a mystery since it was sold for a record $450m (£350m) at auction by Christie’s in New York in 2017. On Monday, Artnet, an art industry news service, reported that the 500-year-old painting was being kept on Prince Mohammed’s €500m (£440m) 134m yacht, Serene.

Artnet said “two principals involved in the transaction” had told its reporter that “the work was whisked away in the middle of the night on MBS’s plane and relocated to his yacht, the Serene”.

The Salvator Mundi (Latin for Saviour of the World), which has been at the centre of a storm of controversy over suggestions that it was painted by one of Leonardo’s assistants and not the man himself, had been due to go on display at a Middle East outpost of Paris’s Louvre gallery last September.

“Having spent so long undiscovered, this masterpiece is now our gift to the world,” Mohamed Khalifa al-Mubarak, the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism, said in June 2018 . “We look forward to welcoming people from near and far to witness its beauty.”

However, just week’s before the scheduled unveiling on 18 September, the opening was postponed and has not been rescheduled.

The Saudi embassies in London and Washington did not respond to requests for comment on the painting’s whereabouts. A spokeswoman for Christie’s did not comment on the location of the painting or its provenance.

Earlier this month, one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo criticised Christie’s for wrongly suggesting in its cataloguing of the Salvator Mundi that she was among scholars who had attributed the picture to the Renaissance master. Dr Carmen Bambach, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, told the Guardian: “That is not representative of my opinion.”

The identity of the buyer remained a secret following the auction until the New York Times disclosed that that it had been bought by a little-known member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud. He is a close friend of Prince Mohammed and after the auction was named the country’s first minister of culture.

MarineTraffic, an app that tracks vessels including superyachts, shows that Serene is currently at Port Said, an Egyptian city where the the Suez Canal meets the Mediterranean Sea.

The Guardian has previously reported on the growing trend for billionaires installing world-renowned masterpieces on their superyachts . Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the owner of Manchester City and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, has several hundred pieces aboard his £350m superyacht, Topaz.

A reporter looking in the windows of Joe Lewis’s £200m superyacht, Aviva , when it moored on the Thames last year, discovered that Francis Bacon’s Triptych 1974–1977 was hanging in gold frames on the lower deck. The painting, whose subject is the death of Bacon’s lover George Dyer, was included in Tate Britain’s blockbuster Bacon and Freud exhibition last summer.

The British-born Lewis, who has an estimated £3.9bn fortune, owns a majority stake in Tottenham football club and lives in the tax-friendly Bahamas, has what he describes as “one of the largest private art collections in the world”. It includes paintings by Degas, Freud, Klimt, Modigliani, Matisse and Picasso, and sculptures by Moore, Degas and Di Modica. It is not known which are kept on his yacht.

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Rising Sun, valued at $200 million

Rising Sun superyacht is valued at $200 million and was purchased by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in 2004, according to Robb Report .

Rising Sun was later purchased again by Geffen Records executive David Geffen in 2010, according to Club Yacht . Geffen also owns another yacht called Pelorus and his yachts have been frequented by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, according to the outlet.

Aviva, valued at $250 million

Aviva, valued at $250 million is 323 feet long and was built in 2017, according to Robb Report . The boat is so large that it has a paddle tennis court that doubles as an indoor soccer field in its interior, according to the outlet.

Andreas Hering, the project manager of the shipyard where the boat was constructed, told Boat International that "in three years" to "build a big yacht around a padel tennis court was the main brief, I guess."

Octopus, valued at $200 million

Octopus, a 414-foot superyacht owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is valued at $200 million, according to Robb Report.

The boat can accommodate 12 guests in 13 different cabins, according to Yacht Charter Fleet . The boat also has a dance floor and a movie theatre, according to the outlet.

Radiant, valued at $300 million

Radiant, a superyacht built for Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in 2010, is 360 feet long and worth $300 million, according to Robb Report.

The boat can accommodate up to 20 guests and 44 crew and sports a beauty salon, gym, pool, and jacuzzi, according to the outlet.

Dubai, valued at $400 million

The "Dubai" megayacht, owned by United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is 532 feet long and is worth around $400 million, according to Architectural Digest .

Topaz, valued at $527 million

Topaz was built in Germany for the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, according to Dubai realtor LuxuryProperty.  

The nearly 500-foot yacht has a helicopter pad, gym, pool, and cinema hall, according to the realtor. Mansour owns Abu Dhabi United Group, which acquired Manchester United FC in 2008. 

Eclipse, valued at $600 million

The 533-foot Eclipse superyacht is valued at $600 million, according to the luxury magazine Robb Report .

The Eclipse is owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, one of 16 yachts and vessels that he owns, according to Forbes .

Azzam, valued at $600 million

Azzam is the largest and one of the fastest yachts in the world, according to Architectural Digest.

The boat took around three years to build and sits at 590 feet long and can travel at a speed of 35 miles per hour, according to the outlet.

Azzam is owned by the family of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was the Second President of the United Arab Emirates before his death in May 2022.

Al Said, valued at $600 million

The 508-foot Al Said sits in the Lürssen shipyard in Germany and was purchased by the former Sultan of Oman, Sultan Qaboos bin Said in 2008 for $600 million, according to Robb Report.

The yacht can travel up to 25 miles per hour and has a concert hall that can accommodate a 50-person orchestra, according to the outlet.

Dilbar, valued at $735 million

Dilbar, owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, is the largest superyacht in the world and it's valued at $735 million.

In April 2022, the yacht was impounded in Germany . German federal police said they seized the yacht after an investigation into "offshore concealment" and determined that Usmanov's sister is the owner of the yacht. The boat remains at a shipyard in Hamburg, Germany.

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A billionaire who owns Manchester City and several other football clubs has been fined 147,000 euros for not paying VAT on the diesel for his megayacht.

The 147 metre long ‘Topaz’ is one of the most luxurious yachts in the world and is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan , Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Minister of Presidential Affairs and a member of the royal family in Abu Dhabi.

In 2013, the ’Topaz ’ sailed to Palma via Andalusia, Barcelona and refuelled along the way. The captain argued that they were sailing for commercial purposes in order to take advantage of the tax exemption for merchant ships and fishing vessels , which does not apply to recreational boats.

The attempted fraud was discovered by Palma Customs who filed a complaint and ordered Oceanus Maritime Limited , which is based in the Isle of Man and owned by Sheikh Mansour, to pay the VAT.

Sheikh Mansour then filed an appeal arguing that part of the trip was a trade mission to export goods to New York and Egypt , but the appeal was thrown out by the court which said the main activity of the ‘Topaz’ is to be a pleasure boat.

" The exemption will not apply to ships intended for sport, leisure or private use,” said the judge.

Defence lawyers then claimed a conflict of jurisdiction because the vessel had refuelled in Andalusia and Barcelona, but not in the Balearic Islands. That was also dismissed by the judge who pointed out that VAT is a state tax, therefore people can be prosecuted without distinction of Autonomous Community.

The Defence also argued that they shouldn’t have to pay the tax because the company is based outside the European Union and there are no employees of Sheik Mansour in Spain, but that was also rejected.

"That there is no representative in Spanish territory cannot prevent the administrative reaction in a case like this," said the judge.

However the fact that there are no employees of Sheikh Mansour in Spain does prevent him from offsetting the VAT with other invoices incurred, so he will eventually have to pay the taxes in Spain.

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This vastly rich Sheikh Mansour should pay up and shut up, its pocket money to him, just like all super rich they Dont like to part with there EASY GOTTEN money.

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The dirham stops with Tahnoon: Meet the man who runs one of world's hottest stock markets

One of abu dhabi's two deputy rulers, national security adviser of the uae and brother to its president, tahnoon has his fingers in almost every pie of its business..

• Updated Apr 07, 2024, 9:20 AM IST

A powerful sheikh calls the shots at one of the world's hottest stock markets, the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, which is now nearing nearly $1 trillion in value. 

As of March 2024, the ADX is ranked 17th in the world, ahead of Spain and Brazil. But it is all about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. One of Abu Dhabi's two deputy rulers, national security adviser of the UAE and brother to its president, Tahnoon has his fingers in almost every pie of its business.  ,  Tahnoon's firms had a weighting of at least 65% of the benchmark FTSE ADX General Index as of March 31.  

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The conglomerate is valued at almost $240 billion.

IHC also makes money from trading on the very exchange where it's listed. It owns the Abu Dhabi stock exchange's most active broker. 

The emirate's ADQ fund, which Sheikh Tahnoon chairs, oversees the exchange itself.  

Tahnoon, the de facto business chief of Abu Dhabi's ruling Al Nahyan family, helms two of Abu Dhabi's biggest wealth funds, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and ADQ, and also chairs First Abu Dhabi Bank, the UAE's biggest lender by assets.

"The interlinkages of assets and the concentration of control in Sheikh Tahnoon's hands, despite being neither ruler nor crown prince, are unusual even by Gulf standards," Steffen Hertog, an associate professor at the London School of Economics, told Bloomberg. 

Despite owning over 10 companies on the exchange, IHC’s stock market forays simply issue a price on the bourse, and don’t use external banks as advisers. It also has a small free float. Since 2020, through the end of March, the total value of companies listed on UAE exchanges has nearly quadrupled, to $950 billion. (Saudi Arabia's market, at $3 trillion, remains the region's largest.) Abu Dhabi's benchmark index accounts for $711 billion. The rest is Dubai. Five of the 10 best-performing IPOs in the UAE since the start of 2021 have come from companies in his empire or controlled by the sovereign wealth funds he oversees. 

Ryan Bohl, of consulting firm Rane Network, told Bloomberg investors in the UAE may contend with less than clearly articulated policies. But the fact that so much relies on one royal provides one kind of clarity, he says: "The dirham, so to speak, stops with [Sheikh] Tahnoon."  

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UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan buys £65 million Chelsea mansion

S heikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi , has reportedly purchased one of the most expensive homes in London.

A mansion built on the site of the BT Earls Court telephone exchange was bought in November by a company with ties to the UAE president, reports Bloomberg .

The Chelsea house sold for £65 million, making it one of a handful of London’s most expensive homes that changed hands last year. The most expensive, a £138 million Mayfair mansion, was bought by Indian  billionaire  and vaccine fortune heir Adar Poonawalla .

London saw 52 homes sold above the $10 million mark (£7.9 million) in Q4 of 2023, according to the Knight Frank Super-Prime Intelligence report, tying with New York for second place after Dubai. London’s super prime market is predicted to rise again in 2024, after bottoming out at the end of 2023 .

The UAE President’s new purchase is one of a development of three identical mansions built between 2004 and 2006 in SW10.

One of the brick villas sold for £51 million in 2015 to a Bermuda-registered company called Mount Ltd.

The house, which featured nine bedrooms, a glass lift, and a basement with a swimming pool and cinema, was one of the most expensive new build homes ever sold in London.Developers Stephen West, Paul Daniel and Giles Mackay bought the old telephone exchange site for £13 million in 2001.

Mackay went on to live in one of the three houses, although a dispute between the multimillionaire and contractors Walter Lilly & Co ended in the high court, with the judge ruling in favour of the builders.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, known as MBZ, was officially elected president of the UAE in 2022 after the death of his brother, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

MBZ is part of the Al Nahyan royal family, one of the world’s wealthiest monarchies, which is believed to own billions of pounds worth of property in London.

In 2014, Abu Dhabi’s ruling family was estimated to be the second largest landowner in Mayfair after the Duke of Westminster.

His late brother is understood to have amassed a portfolio of £1.2 billion of property in the capital.

An Abu Dhabi-backed fund, majority-owned by MBZ’s brother and vice-president of the UAE Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is currently involved in a deal to take over the Telegraph Media Group . The UAE vice-president is also the owner of Manchester City Football Club.

Last month the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund was reportedly considering buying a stake in London’s Heathrow airport .

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