New film accuses club, which faces 115 Premier League charges, of using mystery man from UAE to cover money that was supposed to have

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Martyn Ziegler, Matt Lawton Thursday June 29 0023 8.00pm BST, The Times

A mystery figure from the United Arab Emirates paid Manchester City £30 million, a leaked report has revealed.

The report says that during a Uefa disciplinary hearing, City’s lawyer named the person who paid the money as “Jaber Mohamed” and stated that he was “a person in the business of providing financial and brokering services to commercial entities in the UAE”. The report adds that “… the obvious question, not answered at any point in the club’s submission and evidence, [is] why either Etisalat or ADUG should have needed any financial assistance from a broker in paying the Etisalat sponsorship liabilities.”

City’s case was that Etisalat repaid the money to their owners in 2015, but that was not accepted by the Uefa adjudicatory committee. It imposed a two-year European ban on City in 2019 only for it to be overturned a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which ruled that the £30 million payments could not be dealt with as rule breaches because they were time-barred.

A mystery figure from the United Arab Emirates paid Manchester City £30 million, a leaked report has revealed.

The Uefa report, produced in 2020 but never published, concludes that the two £15 million payments from 2012 and 2013 were made to cover sums that were supposed to have come from one of their main sponsors. The payments are expected to be part of the 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules that City were charged with in February.

The report has been obtained by the makers of a YouTube film about City’s finances. It comes only three weeks after City celebrated clinching the Treble by winning the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.

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