Mansour has owned Man City since 2008
Manchester City’s UAE-based owners could be ‘forced to sell the club’ if sanctions are imposed on owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyanr, according to a new report in The Athletic.
The report comes amidst calls from human rights organisation FairSquare on the UK government to consider sanctions against Mansour.
FairSquare have argued that: “If the UK government is serious about disrupting this horrendous conflict”, then Sheikh Mansour provides “a very obvious point of leverage,” as quoted in The Athletic’s report.
The Manchester City owner is also deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, a nation that has been accused of alleged support for “a paramilitary group accused of committing war crimes in Sudan,” per the Athletic’s report.
The UAE have been accused of arming paramilitary force the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the groups deeply involved within the Sudanese civil war.
The Middle Eastern country have always denied any connection or support with either side within the conflict.
FairSquare’s calls on the government to impose sanctions are far from the first, nor the most prominent to have occurred this year.
Previous statements on Sheikh Mansour’s and the UAE’s alleged involvement in the conflict have been made by some of the biggest names in British politics.
In January, while sitting in parliament, former Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith said:
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