Unpaid Kuwaiti Debts In London

EDM number 905 in 1995-96, proposed by George Galloway on 20/05/1996.

That this House is gravely concerned at the plight of London businessman Mr F. Salus, virtually bankrupted by the refusal to pay debts of ú75,400 owed to him by two princesses of the Kuwaiti Royal Family, Princesses Nadia and Fatemah Al-Sabah, daughter of Sheikh Jaber Al Ali Al-Sabah, who engaged Mr Salus to help build luxury flats in South Kensington at Mansion Place, SW7, yet have persistently refused to pay Mr Salus on the ridiculous grounds that they lost money on this investment which is their problem not their contractors, despite the entreaties of such British personalities as the Noble Lord Bethel, Sir Dennis Walters MBE, the honourable Member for Corby, Robert Evans MEP, the honourable Member for Brent East and many others; and considers that, especially in view of the great debt the Kuwaiti Royal Family owes this country, the Emir of Kuwait should instruct his errant relatives, who are both multi-millionaires, to make good their obligations to a British businessman whom they have all but ruined.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.