[7][8] He was awarded Knight Grand Cross in the Companionate of Merit of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem (GCMLJ) in June 2013.

[13] In November 2015, then UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was criticised for accepting a watch worth £1,950 from Mahfouz.

[23] Prince Charles gave Mahfouz his CBE at a private ceremony in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in November 2016,[24] though the event was not published in the Court Circular.

[25] In 2017, Fawcett expressed in correspondence a willingness to see Mahfouz's honour upgraded to a KBE and to support and contribute to his application for citizenship.

[27] In February 2022 the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into the cash-for-honours allegations linked to Charles' charity The Prince's Foundation,[28][29] passing their evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service for deliberation in October.