Pressure on Emiri brothers


Issue 864 - 06 Nov 2009 | 2 minute read

The business troubles of two of Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani’s brothers (he has four, all half-siblings) have been in the news. In October, former Kaupthing chief executive and prominent Icelandic banker Sigurdur Einarsson was made an official suspect by fraud prosecutors examining alleged market manipulation relating to an investment in the failed bank by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.

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