Mahdi Al Tajir

Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir (Arabic: محمد مهدي التاجر) (born 26 December 1931) is a Bahrana-Emirati businessman based in the United Kingdom.

[5] Al Tajir's 15,000 acre Blackford estate in Perthshire, Scotland is owned by his company Park Tower Holding Establishment, based in the tax haven of Liechtenstein.

[9] Al Tajir formed a joint venture with Bonhams fine art auction house to open an office in Dubai.

[12][13] Al Tajir informed Al-Fayed that Dubai was penniless and needed to borrow £1 million for the future construction of modern harbour facilities.

[17] Al Tajir's influence in Dubai was waning by 1977, and Al-Fayed was excluded from the commission process for a new aluminium smelter, and the development of Jebel Ali, putting Costain's future profits at risk.

[4] In the judgement of a British court case, Al Tajir conspired to defraud Dubai Aluminium of millions of US dollars in connivance with commodities trader Marc Rich, who owned a neighbouring property in Switzerland.