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Ely Calil (8 December 1945 – 28 May 2018) was a Lebanese businessman holding British citizenship. He was one of the richest men in Britain; The Sunday Times Magazine estimated his wealth in 2010 to be around £350 million.
Jun 5, 2018 · Ely Calil, who has died aged 72, was a financier and oil baron who would ordinarily have remained unnoticed and unrecognised outside of the business world had it not been for his...
Jun 9, 2018 · Ely Calil was Nigerian-born, of Lebanese descent, and well known to African presidents, European ministers and Western oil firms. He died on May 28th, reportedly from a broken neck after...
May 31, 2018 · Ely Calil, who has died aged 72 after falling down the stairs at his house in Holland Park, London, was a spectacularly rich oil trader whose name – or rather nickname – kept cropping up in the...
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A former SAS officer who led a botched plot to oust the president of Equatorial Guinea has spoken of his betrayal by a millionaire co-conspirator after the tycoon was found dead in his London mansion.
Jul 13, 2024 · The last survivors of the heroic generation of oil traders in Africa gathered together on June 2 for a ceremony to celebrate the "life of a man well lived" at Ely Calil's London home near Holland Park. The trader of Lebanese origin died on May after falling down his stairs.
It was Smelly, aka Ely Calil, who offered his west London flat to Mandelson when the then Northern Ireland secretary was embroiled in the scandal over an undisclosed loan from fellow minister Geoffrey.
