(BBC) An Ethiopian-born billionaire has won £175,000 in libel damages over allegations he had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi was born in Ethiopia, but now spends his time at homes in central London, Surrey and Saudi Arabia.
The article was published on the online news website Ethiopian Review.
Judge Richard Parkes QC said it was difficult to imagine more serious allegations.
The site’s publisher and editor-in-chief, Elias Kifle, had denied liability.
The judge said that instead of apologising Mr Kifle had repeated the libel and abused Mr al-Amoudi and his lawyers.
The High Court in London heard Mr Kifle’s response to the initial complaint was: “Here is my formal statement: Screw yourself”.
The court heard Mr Kifle then went on to describe Mr al-Amoudi as a “scumbag bloodsucker” who was “funding al-Qaeda”.
Mr al-Amoudi, 65, gave evidence during the libel trial that he was completely opposed to all forms of terrorism.
The judge said the site alleged that Mr al-Amoudi had “disgracefully and callously” married off his daughter Sarah, then 13, to an elderly member of the Saudi royal family as a gift.
‘Wholly untrue’
The article went on to claim that Mr al-Amoudi was probably responsible for murdering his daughter’s lover in Iraq and had hunted his daughter and granddaughter across London in an attempt to ensure they were stoned to death in Saudi Arabia.
Mr al-Amoudi told the court he was horrified by the “wholly untrue” article which could be seen by visitors to the website between January and August 2010, when it was finally taken down.
Mr al-Amoudi, who has a son and seven daughters, said he had a normal relationship with Sarah, who was not married.
He said she had completed a business administration degree in the UK.
Assessing damages, the judge said: “The claimant is not, I judge, a man who wears his heart on his sleeve.
“But his distress as he described the effect of the article on himself and on his family was evident to me, and the more so because, as it seemed to me, he was doing his best to preserve his composure.”
Mr al-Amoudi, who was in the top 50 of Forbes magazine’s 2009 rich list, is believed to have made his money in construction, oil refineries and mining.
Mr al-Amoudi, who is of mixed Ethiopian and Arab heritage, is sometimes described as the world’s richest black man.
He was recently reported to be financing the building of Saudi Arabia’s first car factory.
209 thoughts on “Saudi billionaire wins libel action against Ethiopian editor”
He is the real and hero journalist for Ethiopian ,All woyane (Tigerian) writors about Eliase, I am sorry about your comment. You are the killer and one day you will get your price with Alamuden.you always lie. do you know this cottation,” Ashewa Yezera Azemera Ayesebesebem” OK, Keep it and you will get your price. You all of you woyane killer here is also the best cottation ” Metefo Tota bezemede mote tiseqalech” endemebalew newe.We never forget what are you doing on Ethiopian people.hundrad thousands of Ethiopian killed and jailed . God bless them and you will adewose one suponent time. Banda Yebanda LEJE
My name is Z. Zendo. I reside in the royal suites of Addis Sheraton. Not long ago I came to the fabled land of Ethiopia to be worhiped instead of the great religions of Chritianiy and Islam. This is a fact and wholly true.let me tell you another fact. Everybody who hates Elias is a BS. Yes a blood sucker including me,the court of London and even good old Blair who enjoyed sucking fresh blood in Bishoftu right afterhis heart surgery. He would prefer the Ethiopian blood over the Iraqis No one can sue me for revealing such facts because I’m The Zendo all BS blood suckers worship. The other gilgel Z the Prime Menace is gloating with the blood he sucked with his collaborators the last 20 yrs. BTW it was London who baptized him and enthroned him in Addis in 1991. His foot soldiers a.k.a. AgNazies in 2005 slaughtered 193 souls just as they did to the 434 Anjuakis in the Gambela region where the Big Business suckers are planting cash crops like flowers to decorate the dinner tables of Europeans while millions starve to death in their native land. Where is the law suit and the libel judgement against those perpetrators???
Journalists are true enemies of Z and my BS army. So far I’ve been roaming all over the world with impunity. The mojo game the Z power had is gone. Elias is one who is speaking Truth to Power and the Gilgel- Mujelees hate him for that!The Force is with him. I am done. Finished. This is desperate time for us all BSuckers. Even London in whose empire the sun never set is losing it to lawlessness! Europe in general is an old lady with a new dress who the decadent Saudis would enjoy stoning to death. Is there a way I can change the sex of Elias to female so we can stone him to death? That is what we BSuckers like to do whereever we are . But this brave Elias who wears his father’s pants is the male of all males – yewondoch wondu – the valiant who never fear of death once,
unlike the coward and sychophants who fear of death many times before their death. Elias is now riding high in his Chariots of Fire unstoppable.
Playing fire with fire is not my game. I am Zendo and I am from hell . My enemy is Truth and Light – like Jesus . Wow did I mention His name here. I’m finished- done. I tried burning all journalists too but failed.
The Charits of Fire are chasing me all over in my 11th hour – chasing me out from my hiding places – the palaces ,banks, courts, all battlefields and of course from Addis Sheraton too!
I’m done! Beqaaa !!!!!!!!!!
Ethiopia Taberseh Edewiha Habe Egziab hare!
Psalms 68
No matter what the British judge decided, that arab can dance with the woyanne gujiles. Once the woyanne ‘s gujiles will be kicked out from menelik’s palace and sent to qality , all the arabs’ properties will be transferred to the ethiopia’s people and at the same time our hero Elias kifle will get his 175,000 pounds with full interest after we sell sheraton addis. people like yalew mammo will pay the price for his crime against our hero.
hey Elias check out Tigray Online. the Woyanne goons and Moudi azz kissers are having orgasm over the news.
http://tigraionline.com/articles/article110638.html
Hi Guys, do not forget there is legal cost too on top of the damage. I guess it is more than the damage itself. But don’t worry be happy because 50 lomi leand sew shekm le 50 ge’t now. let’s contribute one dollar each and make Elias happy again. Elias make your account available so that we can start helping you.
#102 Tizu,
I urge Ethiopians not to visit the tigraionline as Tizu suggests. Why do you even visit woyane websites and give them traffic? It is a given that they will be against everything Ethiopians stand for and support the brutal TPLF regime that have robbed, killed innocent Ethiopians and sold Ethiopians land. Simply nauseating!
Elis keep up the hard work,and always stand for truth trust me it will hunt him anyways.God will be with you and be strong Bro..
All those Al-Amudie supporters here, he really owes you something, at the minimum go nil in front of him and beg for your share of his lollipop.
Please gather documents about the forests Almouldi has destroyed. The land he has taken. About the number of people he has displaced. The day pay he pay them. Where the indigeneous people Gambela live now. How they live now. Docoment all these and lay charge against Sheik Alamouldi:
1. Environmental crime for destroying forests: Polluting the soil,
the air, the water
2. Cultural crime for destroying indigenous people culture, way of
life and indigenoue social structure, custom
These can be charged in an international court protecting indigenous people.Almouldi is digging a burial place for his business and his future in Ethiopia. Some EPRDF or TPLF may be happy with Al. but it is going to backfire on Almouldi himself. No Ethiopian is going to be happy about this. I am not a Pro Elias Kifle but he is my citizen. I will never sell him out to foreigners for money. If Elias insulted Almouldi based on national grievances, … then the question, is Almouldi listening that we are not happy the way our country and our people being exploited by him? He must understand, the day will come against him. Almouldi can marry 1000 14 year old Ethiopians girls and make making them muslims and he can destroy forests, water bodys, and he can displace people? he can pay 0.035 cents per day to his Ethiopians slaves? He can go free? Elias who did not nothing except talking words have to pay all these money? Is Alamouldi willing to compensate the indigenous people for the damage he has done? Almouldi and his TPLF cadres may ululate now, but take my words, this will trigger a big case against Almouldi right now. Please gather about the land Almouldi has taken from the indigenous people? We will charge Alamoudi to pay 1 Trillion pounds to the millions of people he is abusing and for the environmnetal crime he has committed in Gambela. If that is the case? by the way, if there is law against crime in UK? Why are ONLF criminals who admitted massacring 75 innocent Ethiopians and 7 Chinese experts roaming in London free? Why is that? The British eat potatoes and think they are the only clever people and the rest of us are just bunnch of monkeys who do not know anything? We have to charge the British Government for harbouring ONLF which has massacred our 75 citizen and 7 Chinese experts. Please gather documentation about this and lay a case againsst the house of commons in Washington and we charge the House of Commons to pay Quillions which is 10^24 pounds because the lives of 82 innocent Ethiopians and Chinese is cannot be equated to any amount of money.
ELias case will trigger many many outstanding cases against Almouldi and agaisnt the British government. Ethiopians citizens are waking up everywhere in the world. Beware, we can stand against all odds together and we will win like our ancestors.
What surprises me most here is not the hatred against Elias but the unlikely bond I am seeing between Almoudi & Tigrayans, I am half Tigre for the record and its sickening to see fellow Tigrayans looking at their selves just as Tigres not Ethiopians, and this bond with this pervert Arab is not what Tigrayan ancestors did, just because he is a supporter of a Tigrayan regime, it does not make Al Amoudi, friend of Ethiopia. In fact, i don’t see Meles and Co as real Tigrayans, real Tigre loves his country, prospers his country, protects his religion and sacrifice his life for his country, Meles and co are nothing close to that. Elias Kifle is just a whistle blower and an activist who is after Meles, Al Amoudi and traitors, and as many of you suggested here, Elias is not Eritrean, his father confirmed that on the video he posted, I believe he belongs to the Menz sect of Amhara but from what I heard, he is half Tigre and half Amhara, I don’t know from which side though, but his father sounded very much Amhara. Anyways, Al Amoudi, if it matters for you, congradulations but i could have respected you more if you have built atleast few orphanages and nursing homes for the elderly instead of flaunting your money for your friends to ran after beautiful women in a country where young girls do anything for money to support their family, it hurts to see your hodam friends messing around with your money. I am not saying this out of envy, I make a good living for myself and my family working in corporate America ran by people much richer than you are, it actually is a pleasure to see an Ethiopian blood being one of richest individuals in the world but please act like it and discipline your friends who drool after beautiful Ethiopian women. There are many fathers like me who might shoot on the head if they see one of your gigolos or yourself trying to corrupt his daughter. The karma decided to act against your daughter when you messed with daughters of others. May God forgive you.
well, you know
you should’t open ur mouth
Aizoh ELIAS
@#63 Noah
The British are the one who helped Ethiopia defeat the Italian army. ( Don’t forget to give them credit for that)
where has Alamoudin gone with his billions that he robbed from the Ethiopian people, whilst millions are dying of famine in Ethiopia. Has he got any shame that he calls himself a billionaire and an Ethiopian. (at least he calls himself Ethiopian to the guys at the ETHiopian sports federation in the US and also wears EPRDF/TPLF scarf). Instead he is chasing more money from Elias to stuff his bank balance.
Listen Al-Amoudi you half baked Weyane and half fried Wahabist!
Here is also my formal statement:
Screw yourself!!!
Signed
Demfelat
THESE HODAM BILLIONAIRE MIGHT HAVE WON THE BATTLE BUT HE DID NOT WIN THE WAR . HE IS ASKING FOR FULL SCALE WAR BY TOUCHING ETHIOPIA’S TRUE SON AND HE WILL GET IT, HE WILL PAY FOR IT HUNDRED FOLDS . MOHAMMED IS FINISHED . MOHAMMED PLEASE TAKE YOUR STINKY MONEY AND SHAVE IT WHERE YOU LIKE YOUR BOYFRIENDS TO SHAVE IT INTO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARENOT WELLCOMEN ANYMORE.
Let us do what we suppose to do. Really it is time to show how 80,000,000 people hate them. So please let us make the talk short and show the action by donating Elias….it is how we defend the press and show how we really tired of banda and weyanes.
God bless Ethiopia!!
Dear Ethiopians,
If we hate or condemn Elias Kifle for :
1. Speaking against Almouldi
2. For allying with Issayas Afeworki
Then what should the Ethiopians do with Meles TPLF:
1. For landlocking Ethiopia by allying with Egypt?
2. For charging poor Ethiopians to pay forced levy of 2 billion each year for Kenya, Djibouti, Sudan,… for port services while our ports are sitting idle and our people starving to death and our little girls selling their body to buy bread?
3. For betraying 100 000 Ethiopians souls in the war between Shabia and Ethiopian?
4. For selling land
5. For selling teenages girls for slavery to Arabs
6. For selling babies for adoption?
7. For conscripting teenage Tigreans as young as 10 years old during the 17 years war in name of liberation of Tigray, TPLF took many innocent teenage Tigreans and sacrificed them in karura and Nakfa to save Shabia?
8. If there are Tigreans who condemn Elias, then they better condemmn Meles Zenawi for betraying their sons and daughters during the 17 years and during the war with Shabia and for landlocking them and isolating them before condemning Issayas. The bible says, ” you will be measured by the measure your measured.”
Yes, Elias has allied with Issayas, but he did not do more crime than TPLF. He just repeated the mistake of TPLF? Why do Meles supporters think they can go away with everything they do ? But they wish others to die? Aiga wishes Elias Kifle to die? Then let us be honest? Why do some Tigreans thing they are above the law and they can say and do everything they want, but others Ethiopians have to accept and say amen to the crimes they commit? If Elias has to be punished for speaking, then why is not Meles Zenawi even hanged for many national crimes he has committed? Something is fishy and smelly? Elias, be assured we love you like the rest of our citizens. you are not perfect like everyone of us and like even the cursed TPLF leaders like Meles Zenawi. Did you read what Meles did? He bragged of chasing and humiliating his generals to Negaso Gidada? Meles even killed his General Hayelom, and executed his intelligence Minister in broadday light? Tigreans did not say anything for killing their own sons and daughters. Do not expect anything different. They cannot speak. But rest assured, Tigraionline and Aiga does not represent Tigreans, otherwise, it would be like saying Abraha Belay also represent Tigreans.
Let us unite and say no to injustice because truth prevails. When Almouldi burn our forests, displace our people, he can go way, but when our people speaks out to express their grievanes,they are charged for libel in England? This will never serve Ethiopians interest. Leave alone Ethiopians interest, this even will not benefit Almouldi himself because it will backfire on him. Ethiopia is not Meles Zenawi or Almouldi, Ethiopia has 90 million people. If Almouldi do take money from Elias, he will be planting a bomb under his bed. He may not realize it now. But it will come back to him later.
I have visited Tigraionline and I have read the comments. The commentators are supporters of Almouldi. But Elias be assured, Tigraionline does not represent Tigrean. Tigray is made of 6 million people. You cannot say Tigrean are ejaculating orgasm because they are overwhelmed by the happiness of the punishment of Elias. Elias, rest assured, leave alone Tigraionline, TPLF does not represent Tigreans. I Advice people to stay away from this gemla or whole sale politics of accusing 6 million people of because of one website. Most Tigreans do not even know the existence of Tigraionline and aiga website because they do not have access to internet like other Ethiopians.
The people who use the ethnic name are those who are on power. They use the ethnic name to protect themselves that is the only they can survive. They know conscious Ethiopians hate them.
Elias, I have to be honest with you. I am not your fan, not because I hate you, but I do not agree with your way of struggle. But that is still okay with me because you are human being and it is natural you can choose your way. My ideology is I can only convince people by reasoning, specially my citizen. You have done one mistake, but TPLF did 100s of mistakes and still repeating them. Why would you to be perfect then? Do you have to be perfect because you do not support TPLFF?
My personal advice to you, do not interact with the people whom you do not like or whom you oppose. And be wise, for instance, the screw yourself statement was wrong. You have treat even your enemies with dignity. That is the only way you can better than the other. If you do what they do? Then your are like them.
The other things: As I already suggested, UK court has no jurisdiction over you. They cannot do anything to you. United state is not a colony of UK. You did not commit serious crime and they cannot ask extradition. Know your constitutional rights from your council. I did not the story. Where did you get the story? If there is a story and I am sure there must be a source for it. If you did not make it up? Put it up and let even the other Ethiopian websites post it and the wolrld know it.
The other thing: When he laid charge against you in England, you were also supposed to lay charge against him in Washington. It could have been tit for tat and we could drop it when he knew it will cost him too. Never allow people to ride on you. Know your rights and please respect people even your enemies and focus on the problem.
And stay out of ethnic politics.
Besme Ab we Wold we Menfes Qedus.
Yehkideke detractor seytanawit zeregnas and Banda wahabists who are messengers of evil worshippers from the four corners of the world trying to destroy the new Jerusalem – Ethiopia and it’s good daughters and sons! Stop sending 28000 of our sisters and daughters to Saudi wolfs as gift. The evil-doers can’t face my Meskel since they dematerialize and blow away in the dust. Where lawlessness rules there is no court of law. My foot London court. Give me a break Did Haile S. filed any law suit when he was being called by all kinds of names by gujilees and gilgel Mujelees? The even dared to call HIM Qorit. Shame shame and shame. Ethiopia has to detoxify all the body system by purging wahibists and woyane-Mujelees. Too toxic and their collaborators are venoms to all Africans since they are called Aids – true cancerous cells like the zeregnss, hodams and simply God foresaken ignorant fools who don’t even know the hole from the ass!
Screw them all. Ethiopia shall triumph! The battle has just began.
The fact that no one ever sued Al Amoudi proves that the real suckers have all along been Al Amoudi himself and his likes who have been plundering the country for 20 years. It would be nice to see someone give the sucker a one-two punch, an upper cut, a kick and a jab and watch his shocked reaction. For twenty years, these people have not seen one single reaction to their incredible action. The day the attacking starts from the other side, the game and days are numbered for the fat snakes.
Habesha people Shintam hula!!! Eliyass has balls! the only one who stand upto big boys, nobody in media world has courage to say a word against Almudi. whatever you think of Eliyas, at times you should thank him for opposing Melez and almudi evil deeds in Ethiopia in a country journalism disappeared for good. whether you like or not Eliyas Ethiopia-review is famous in Ethiopia and diaspora. Elyias is nightmare to leadership in ethiopia even well known billionaire go up and down court to discredit ethiopian review and the editor. I say it again Mr bloodsucker Almudi and your servants SCREW YOURSELF!
Why did the plaintiff lied. Why did he say he has only one son? Amazing. What a judge, corrupted.
it is wrong to say or write false words about any body or thing . when it comes to chilldren they are offlmite and to telling the truth allways better than making things up on some comment they are bashing islam or arabs one has nothing to do to other it is not christian or muslim to say hatefull thing about any one learn learn god be with you all. peace.
To HaILE #108: No one needs to know you’re half tigrian and half gurage it is all beautiful. However, You sound like more of half cast of a mule and a donkey.
Hi Brother Elias,
tell us your account Nr. and we will pay. You have done it in the name of ethiopioans , so true ethiopian will pay.
eli we will pay it..
Like they said in the movies”Money Talks Bullshit Walks” time for you to stand up Elia.If I were You I’ll bring back and publish the articale right on ER and keep it here everyday.Here in the west money talks if you have money you can buy the best lawers and everything.Some of us who can’t afford lawers we can buy guns.If I were you I’ll not pay one dollar to asshole….I’ll pay after I’m dead…..it will be over my dead body.I hope the asshole will not pay millions to host company that hosts “ER” anything can happen in these days and age…..like i said money talks bullshit walks.
Alamudi is a criminal partner of Meles Zenawi. He is responsible for the uprooting of millions of Oromos from their original home land. He has helped TPLF for the massacre of thousands of Oromos . He has acquired a lot property illegally in Oromia. The victory of the Oromo people against Alamudi and TPLF is very soon.
Elias,
You have about 100 loyal visitors. So charge them 175000/100
1750 pounds or 2000 dollars each. Then you walk away as free man. But next time you do this it will be 0 contribution.
FACTS
That, I am trying to recall*******If I am wrong please correct me.
1- Al-Amoudi’s name first appeared on American paper as one of financier of a terrorist. He have not been in USA ever since.
It was not on Ethiopian Review.
2- Al-amoudi’s name mentioned as a terror financier again on a book written by some one.
It was not on Ethiopian Review.
3- Al-Amoudi daughter name Sarah’s story first was published by other paper not by Ethiopian Review.
4- Al-Amoudi is a well known womanizer in Ethiopia which is not a public secret at all.
5- Ethiopian Review posted those articles on its website to let Ethiopians informed.
6- Al-Amoudi might think money can buy him any thing and every thing but, he is wrong. He can’t buy LOVE for all the money he have. “Ethiopians do not like him”
The British court should have investigated if Al-Amoudi is really a terror supporter or not, instead of Elias kifle who exercises his freedom of medium.
Ato Elias,
Finally you became like mad dog who cries on the street… It sounds like the Billionaire refused for your money begging and then you went to court for fabricated allegation…
You are the big sucker..
Setegn Mereko,
I can see your in and out indignation and frustration. All of you will be caught one by one and hanged at meskel adebabay. You in fact the devil son of the devil Isayas the old jackal.
Oh shit ! What’s Mr. Kifle gonna do ? You shouldn’t have posted the article as long as the veracity of the allegation was not corroborated independently or the other way even if this guy has been for the last 20 years a Wayyanee stooge to sabotage the very existence of our people . ….It is British court , it’s in Britain where the court receives a verdict order from the Downing street no 10 ! I was not surprised when I saw the news that you’ve been found guilty of the so called defamatory statements made against the bullshit sheik of marrying his daughter off to the Saudi royal family .
Advice to Elias : You can practice your careers boundlessly as long as you abide to the laws and regulations of the USA,,,,,but try to moderate your Amhara Chauvinistic and fundamentalist behavior
Interesting Story
“Miss Al-Amoudi, who was not at the hearing, is seeking to set aside the judgment at Central London County Court. Mystery surrounds the background of Miss Al-Amoudi. In the past, she has claimed to be the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Saudi-Ethiopian businessman Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi.
Yesterday, the billionaire’s London-based spokesman said that she was not his daughter. Miss Al-Amoudi also claimed that Saudi businessman Mohammed bin Aboud Al-Amoudi – who owns the InterContinental Hotel in Jeddah – was her father.”
AND AL-AMOUDI SAID HE HAVE A DAUGHTER NAME SARAH
Read one of the news Elias posted, the whole story…….
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010
Sara Al-Amoudi fails to gag Mail on Sunday over her £12m property debt
By Abul Taher
A woman who claimed to be a Saudi princess and went on a house buying spree at exclusive London addresses has been ordered to pay back £12.5 million after a judge ruled against her in a dispute with a property tycoon.
Sara Al-Amoudi, who says that she has dated Hollywood actor Colin Farrell, has now been banned from selling the 15 properties she purchased.
Miss Al-Amoudi – who has attracted the nickname the Vamp in the Veil – tried to gag The Mail on Sunday from reporting details of the court case.
Her solicitors were seeking an injunction to stop her being named. But at 1.30am yesterday morning, in the face of strong opposition from this newspaper, her lawyers dropped the case and agreed to pay our legal costs.
Miss Al-Amoudi, 28, owns 13 apartments in exclusive London areas including Knightsbridge and Chelsea. The most expensive apartment is behind Harrods and cost £2 million when she bought it in 2008.
She also owns a country house in Billingshurst in West Sussex, near Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s £18 million estate, and a large property in Truro, Cornwall.
Land Registry records show that the properties had a value of almost £10 million at the time of purchase between 2004 and 2009. They are now estimated to be worth well over £12 million.
Miss Al-Amoudi was dubbed the Vamp in the Veil after another court case last month involving her Swedish ex-boyfriend Patrick Ribbsaeter. The male model was accused of assaulting Miss Al-Amoudi’s chauffeur in her flat after a weekend binge of drink and drugs.
He was acquitted at London’s Southwark Crown Court. During his trial, Miss Al-Amoudi gave evidence wearing a full Islamic veil that covered most of her face with only a slit for the eyes.
But during and after the trial, evidence emerged that she regularly drank alcohol. Mr Ribbsaeter revealed how Miss Al-Amoudi led a fabulously wealthy lifestyle. He told the court she was driven round London in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI. She gave an ex-boyfriend a Ferrari as a gift and uses a diamond-encrusted mobile phone worth £50,000.
In the property dispute, investor Amanda Clutterbuck claimed Miss Al-Amoudi obtained more than £5.5 million from her company through unauthorised money transfers. Ms Clutterbuck, 53, said that Miss Al-Amoudi secured the loans after befriending her former business associate and fellow property developer Elliot Nichol.
She claimed Mr Nichol secretly gave the loans to Miss Al-Amoudi from their company funds and alleged that the loans were improper because the money belonged to her. Ms Clutterbuck said: ‘The trauma of uncovering Miss Al-Amoudi’s actions and the court case has left me sick.
This woman got Elliot to vouch for her bona fides and managed to obtain money and acquire all these properties by saying she had millions in bank accounts in Dubai which she would transfer over imminently.
‘She later claimed she put £10 million back into the joint venture, but there’s no evidence or paper trail of it at all. She claims to be a Saudi princess with millions, but I see no evidence of it.’
Miss Al-Amoudi, who was not at the hearing, is seeking to set aside the judgment at Central London County Court. Mystery surrounds the background of Miss Al-Amoudi. In the past, she has claimed to be the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Saudi-Ethiopian businessman Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi.
Yesterday, the billionaire’s London-based spokesman said that she was not his daughter. Miss Al-Amoudi also claimed that Saudi businessman Mohammed bin Aboud Al-Amoudi – who owns the InterContinental Hotel in Jeddah – was her father.
An official in his company denied this. Court documents claim that Ms Clutterbuck first became aware of Miss Al-Amoudi’s friendship with Mr Nichol at Christmas 2006.
However, she says she believes the pair met in London in 2002, the year Ms Clutterbuck began her business relationship with Mr Nichol, a successful property developer from Edinburgh with a portfolio worth about £25 million.
He also had a long-term partner and son. Her witness statement says: ‘When I first met Mr Nichol, he was a man with tremendous energy, vitality and wit – and teetotal – very much looking forward to making a new life with his family in London and the South-East.
Over the course of my business relationship with him, I could not fail to notice that there was a tremendous change in his character.’ Mr Nichol died aged 50 in December 2009 from alcohol poisoning.
He owned properties in expensive areas of Central and West London. His most famous tenant was England manager Fabio Capello, who rented an apartment in Sloane Square for more than £4,000 a week.
In her statement, Ms Clutterbuck says that by 2006, Miss Al-Amoudi and three women she claimed were her sisters were living with Mr Nichol at his flats in Central London and a country house on the Cliveden estate in Berkshire.
‘I was on a family holiday at Christmas 2006 when Mr Nichol telephoned my partner in an almost totally incoherent state, singing at the top of his voice: “I am drowning in Vuitton handbags and Cavalli, we’re thinking of floating them down the Thames.” ’
Ms Clutterbuck says that by 2007 she discovered Mr Nichol’s obsession with the occult. Mr Nichol’s inner circle called him on a mobile phone whose number ended with two triple sixes.
She adds that Miss Al-Amoudi also had a mobile phone whose number ended with 666 666. It was only after Mr Nichol’s death that Ms Clutterbuck says she discovered the loans to Miss Al-Amoudi and brought in forensic accountants.
Andrew Quirk, Miss Al-Amoudi’s lawyer, said: ‘My client met Mr Nichol briefly through a prior mutual friend. They weren’t friends, there were no loans from Mr Nichol as claimed.
This claim that the client has taken £5.5 million is completely untrue. The allegations are being vigorously denied and are nonsense.’ Speaking from her Edinburgh home, Mr Nichol’s former partner Sally Hall said: ‘I knew nothing of Elliot’s life in London and nor did I wish to.
‘We separated two years before he died. I am here with my son and I know nothing and I have nothing to say.’
Source : The Daily Mail
AND NOW TELL ME ELIAS IS WRONG? Thank You Elias!
* 111 Anonymous says:
@#63 Noah
The British are the one who helped Ethiopia defeat the Italian army. ( Don’t forget to give them credit for that)
Littel knowledge is very bad.. If they did things forsure they do it for their best interest and you know what they said when the kicked out the Italians ..some people said thank you to the brits and they replied I didn’t do it for you negger..read Michaela Wrong’S book. Negger I didn’t do it for you.
Activist and wannabe blogger Elias got the medicine he had long needed. Elias made a name for himself as a notorious peddler of lies because of his complete idiocy and blatant disregard for accepted norms and standards of practice in writing for a public audience. Now the law is coming down on him like a tone of bricks.
Clearly if other people bullied by him followed suit to drag him to court, we could find him in exactly the same if not worse position over and over again.
I say thank Goodness for the rule of law.
There is no other way Elias could learn to behave like a civilised human being.
By the way, where is Al Mariam who is the associate editor on this ? He must have seen this coming long long ago having worked with him hand in gloves. Wasn’t he an attorney of some sort or be it a politically driven one ?
Its just incredible .
i don’t understand why you Alias are doing this rubbish and has created a problem on yourself, if your history is true why don’t you counter rather asking for US Court? that for me is ridicules.
please talk genuinely and talk peace, Tilacha lemanim ayitkimim. Elias is doing what Esayas has told him to do. Please fellow Ethiopians stop and think about what Shabiya is doing.
Dear Elias,
If you decide to pay the money, I am ready to contribute(a small amount). I am sure TRUE Ethiopians will do the same to cover all the money.
Be strong ma man, you are writing history…
Elias Kifle has been behaving like a wild dog for decades, he has been busy trying to defame lots of popular individuals in Ethiopia. He targeted successfull politicians, business people , army generals and sports personalities.
All of them decided to ignore the unfounded allegation by Elias Kifle and Ethiopian Review. Now a brave ethiopian has had enough of such allegations and decided to take him to court. Now Elias Kifle has been order to pay 175,000 pounds in libel damages to Sheik Mohammed Alamudi.
Elias Kifle, Prof Alemayehu Alemariam and all the toxic diasporas have been targeting ethiopians who are making huge contribution to the social economic and political development of Ethiopia. Alamudi and Midroc Ethiopia employ close to one hundred thousands of people in Ethiopia. The change which we all are witnessing in Ethiopia is seen as a threat to the survival of Eritrean regime and its surrogate kids like Elias Kifle.
In 2009 Elias Kifle’s EthiopianReview nominated Isaias Afeworki as man of the year, in them days The EPPF and Elias Kifle had a cosy relationship. Ethiopian Reviews Elias Kifle even went to Asmara to interview the president of Eritrea. The EPPF an extremist organisation which attempts to restore amhara domination has been fighting Ethiopia based in Asmara. Since end of 2010 the group seemed to be disentegrated, some leaders of the group who befriended Elias Kifle have been killed by Eritrean regime, some have disappeared. These actions of the Eritrean regime has forced Elias kifle to keep his distance from shaebiya.
Now, another blow has come to EthiopianReview, it has been ordered to pay 175,000 Pound in libel damages to Alamudi.
I hope this court case will pass a lesson to those extremist groups in cyber world, the internet is not a place to hide and spread venom against individuals and groups of people. We should all join hands and take similar action on those cyber facists who are encouraging ethnic conflict and war targeting certain ethiopian groups. Alamudi has opened the road for us, we should not sitback and watch our people being harrassed and intimidated by cyber warriors. The same goes to those toxic paltalkers who spread hate campaign against the people of Tigray. Its time to collect audio evidences and expose them, if naming and shaming them is not going to work we need to take them to courts.
Welldone Alamudi
Elias you were right about AL Amadi but needed some proof. Please read the book by Mr. ROHAN GUNARATNA CALLED “ INSIDE AL QAEDA. PAGE 85 the author talks about Hussien Al Amadi involvement. I quote from the book page 85. “ AT A GLOBAL LEVEL, AL QAEDA FUNDS WERE MANAGED BY AN EXILEDD SAUDI BUSINESS IN ETHIOPIA, SHEIKA MUHAMMAD HUSSEIN AL-ALMADI; “
MR. ROHAN GUNARATNA , was the uthor ever accused oflibel? This guy have done his homework and must got his fact from a good sourc. Elias write to him, he probably will share his resource with you. The rest of idiot please shut up.
The chicken have come home to roost!I hope Elias will learn from this expensive lesson. You hate Alamoudi because he supports EPRDF? I am not their supporter,but I respect any body’s choice of supporting whom ever they want. Guys, you live in a democratic world & yet deny others to exercise their democratic rights?
Hey,grow up & think rationally-As for Elias ‘Belefelefu Baf…’
WOW …this is outrageous. is there anything we can do for you Brother elias !!!!!
Why are all weyanes dogs barking against Elias.? we are proud of our brothers. that idiot arab is a well known criminal who used to sleep with under age girls. That arab borned and grew from a very poor parents in wollo who had a very small kiosk to manage their life. his father from yemen and his mother from tegeray. Now the kangror court in london told us that arab had an oil refineries and mining. but the question here for the court and that arogant arab, where is the original financial resources? what is his profession and what was his amount of salary to before he became the owner of oil refineries and mining companies. He has been lootting our country and hidding our gold and other wealthies in UK’s bank. when the terrorists group TPLf will be eradicated , the arab will be eradicated together and all his properies will transfere to our ppl and our brother elias will get his money back .
I hope you die!
Al-Moudi failed to disclose the British court about the number of wives, children he has and his love of young Ethiopian girls that are young enough to be his grand children. Also he failed to disclose the reasons why he is not allowed to enter United States if that is true. Al-Moudi bragged about how much money he has and how much money he contributes to British financial markets to show that he is more valuable to Britain than an immigrant Ethiopian that lives in the United States. Al-Moudi will never know for sure the women and some of the people around the world that worshiped him are for real or their love and their admiration for him is conditioned due to his wealth. In the other hand, Elias knows with out a shadow of a doubt that the people that love him and admire him are real and unconditional.
elias may god be with you as we ethiopians are very proud of you and we should be on your side to help you out by any thing possible as this is a target not to silence elias personally but this is a target that weyane wants to silence the vast majority of ethiopians even in diaspora, therefore I urge ethiopians to be on the side of elias kifle by any means possible, lets show our practical support to elias where we show the weyane evil group how strong we are and how much we are tired of thier injustice along with thier non stop crime, as we should show them we are ready not only to stand with elias but to get rid of weyane by any means possible
Final Tribute – Addios Woyanes & false Sheiks!
For everything there is a season!
The so-called Arabs had their Spring Revs
The Ethiopians have their endless Summers
It took 20 yrs to purge the Mujelees out!
Now that the playboy pseudo sheik wants to play the billionair’s game we shall turn the table and sue him in court for al the crimes he and the woyanes did against the Ethiopian peoples.
Instead he the notorious sheik and his collaborators should pay the gallant Elias 3X the settlement amount. That is all as far as the case is concerned – screw judge Patrick too. He is just a hired gun for the decadent rich who doesn’t have a common sense let alone any knowledge jurisprudence. He is sitting in the lawless land of Europe who slaughtered Africans during colonial times at will and still doing it. Hello hello can we say how about the slaughter in Oslo? Like it or not thiis case is beyond Elias and ER. As to the evidences and further discovery of the case #132 Teklu has said it all and rested the case at 7/31 5:18 am. Wow where was he writing that early from -Alaslka, Australia or even Aratkilo from from the parliamentarians sheep barn or the door steps of the gujelees residence? Where ever you are God bless you and you have rested your case.
1. My simple request is can we save Ethiopia ? if not the hungry at least our sisters, daughters and future mothers 28000 of them – from being given to the ruthless hungry Saudi wolves as gifts? The decadent – pseudo religious drug and alcohol addicted Saudis who are paying revenge since they think the Ethiopians had once enslaved them and can’t stop at nothing before they disintegerate Ethiopia.Al amoudi is the conduit for their master plan along with the illegitimate woyanes – certified bandas and their ilks.
2. If the so-called richest black man in the world thinks as a real black man would have created a job for the 28000 women in their own homeland instead of acting like a pimp and a conduit for corruption and child molestation. Right here is good enough case to convict him in international court.
3. As for the hate mongers who passionately hate patriotic Ethiopians what I can say is look for cover the wind is blowing hard in your directions. The infantile dupped ignorant fools notwithstanding, let’s name names and call them waltas(also known as washitas) Tigray online and Igaforum-prove with no uncertain terms – to us if you haven’t or never ever received a copper penny from the psuedo sheik al Amoudi and illegally received even one Ethiopian birr from the gugilee! Nobody is going to visit your site or agrandise you since you are not advancing true journalism nor standing along with others defending other innocent journalists in jail who are being tortured by your boss the gujilee you worship .
4. As for the rest of the story Elias is having the last laugh while his ER site is getting a record number of hits while the other sites are serving tyrants and counting Al a Moody’s orgasms with their ears plugged to his hotel suits… Shame shame if you know any shame. Now after all is said and done it is time to prepare how to burry the mujalee the refused to be purged from the die hard system for the last 20 yrs. Be prepared – use the right sharp incision (know-how ) so we deliver the right justice to the Ethiopian people!
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Asmelash #138,
Why don’t you Evil worshipers shut the Hell up! You and the likes of you lebas love and worship a dictator who is responsible for the deaths of countless number of Ethiopians, a tyrant who locked up tens of thousands innocent Ethiopians in jail, a monster that has given Ethiopia’s precious land to foreign billionaires, a professional looter that has robbed Ethiopians blind and gotten extremely wealthy while leading one of the poorest country in the world… All these show how totally heartless and hateful people you all are. People like you who are selfish that stand for injustice, human misery and tyranny hate every Ethiopian that stands for Democracy, Peace, Freedom and Liberty for all Ethiopians. For the last twenty years, you people have proven yourselves that your purpose of taking power is to loot, torture, kill, and sell Ethiopia piece by piece. Your horrific crimes is recorded by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. And someday, God willing, you people also be humiliated like Mubarak, the Tunisian, Yemeni leaders and Gaddafi.
AYE ELIAS BEAKMIH BETZEL MINALE.