Mahdi Al Tajir () is an Emirati businessman based in the United Kingdom.

Al Tajir spends much of his time at his London home or at Keir House, his Perthshire estate.

Al Tajir was named Scotland's richest man with a wealth of £ 1. 5 billion in the Sunday Times Rich List 2010.

Born in Bahrain, Al Tajir was educated at Preston Grammar School in Lancashire.

Al Tajir is married with five children.

Al Tajir also owns London's Sheraton Park Tower Hotel at 101 Knightsbridge near Hyde Park and Mereworth Castle in Kent, which he purchased in 1976 for $ 1. 2 million.

Al Tajir has an extensive collection of silver artifacts and carpets.

In 1993 Al Tajir paid the record price for a piece of silver at auction, when he bought a 1736 silver chandelier made by Balthasar Friedrich Behrens for £ 2. 27 million at Christie's in Monaco.

Al Tajir formed a joint venture with Bonhams fine art auction house to open an office in Dubai.

In 1963 Al Tajir became director of Sheikh Rashid's Petroleum affairs and effectively the most powerful man in Dubai after Sheikh Rashid himself.

Al Tajir remained UAE ambassador to the United Kingdom until 1987.

In London in the late 1960s Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed was introduced to Al Tajir by Salim Abu Alwan, an Iraqi businessman.

Al Tajir informed Al-Fayed that Dubai was penniless and needed to borrow £ 1 million for the future construction of modern harbour facilities.

Rochlitz's Jewish ancestry caused embarrassment to Al Tajir, and later caused Rochlitz to reject Al-Fayed's offer of a formal partnership.

By the mid 1970s Costain had gained over £ 280 million of contracts thanks to Al-Fayed and Al Tajir.

Al Tajir was challenged in the British courts to repay his alleged excessive profits earned from the construction of Dubai's aluminum smelter, and Al-Fayed was targeted over his management contract of the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The construction of Dubai's aluminium smelter caused Al Tajir to fall out with Sheikh Rashid ’ s sons.

In the judgement of a British court case, Al Tajir conspired to defraud Dubai Aluminium of millions of dollars in connivance with commodities trader Marc Rich, who owned a neighbouring property in Switzerland.

Al Tajir owns a glass-bottling company in Dubai and a private bank in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands.

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