A member of the Bahraini royal family has been sued for failing to pay an alleged 35 million dollars to an Egyptian businessman who had purportedly arranged meetings for him with stars from the Indian movie industry.
Bahrain’s Sheikh Hamad Issa Al Khalifa was accused at a London court this week of entering into a deal with Egyptian businessman Ahmed Adel Abdallah Ahmed for meeting 26 Bollywood stars and paying 1.5 million dollars per meeting.
Under the alleged agreement, Ahmed would also receive a 500,000-dollar bonus for every third meeting.
In his lawsuit against Al Khalifa, the Egyptian middlemen claimed the Bahraini royal — who is a cousin of the King of Bahrain and also the nephew of the Bahraini deputy prime minister — had backed out of the agreement and paid only three million dollars after meeting four of the actors.
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