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Monaco-Based Billionaire: Canadian Citizen

monaco-based billionaire: The longtime friend of Brian Mulroney also donated 4 million to the soon-to-open Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at St, according to Metro News. Francis Xavier University, where he received an honorary degree in 2015 and was announced as a Canadian citizen. Said, a Syrian-born, Monaco-based billionaire, was the broker of the 1985 Al-Yamamah arms deal to sell British warplanes to Saudi Arabia, in which 6 billion in corrupt commissions were allegedly paid to members of the Saudi royal family. But how did this Saudi-Syrian businessman pick up a third passport It's not clear exactly when, but at some point in the 1990s, Said received Canadian citizenship. I am a Canadian citizen and am proud to be one, wrote Said in an email to the Star and CBC/Radio-Canada. To fulfil the three-year residency requirement, public records show that instead of living in a luxury building, as he did in London, U.K., Said rented a basement apartment in Montreal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.