Ely Calil

[2] In 2002, Calil was arrested in Paris in connection with the Elf Aquitaine scandal but was released on appeal.

[4] In September 2004, he was sued by the Equatorial Guinean government for allegedly having raised $750 000 to finance the plot.

His second wife was Lebanese socialite Hayat Emma Mroue who gave him two more children, Karim and May.

In 2006 he sold his Chelsea home, Sloane House, for an estimated £45 million to Sir Anthony Bamford.

[6] In 2008 a gang of burglars targeted his home in Hampstead, but were caught by police and his possessions returned to him.