Blue Days » Thaksin Shinawatra http://www.bluedays.co.uk The site that loves Manchester City even more than Michel Platini loves the Premier League Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Sheikh Mansour buys final 10% of City shares http://www.bluedays.co.uk/2009/09/23/sheikh-mansour-buys-final-10-of-city-shares/ http://www.bluedays.co.uk/2009/09/23/sheikh-mansour-buys-final-10-of-city-shares/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:15:44 +0000 Blue Days http://www.bluedays.co.uk/?p=309 The club have announced that Sheikh Mansour has purchased the 10% of the club’s shares that were owned by Worldwide Investments Limited. This was a company indirectly owned by Thaksin Shinawatra and his family. The 10% had previously gone to Worldwide Investments Limited at the time Sheikh Mansour took over.

David Conn writes in The Guardian:

After the takeover Thaksin was widely reported to have retained his interest in the remaining 10% of shares, and appointed as his nominees his long-term associate ...]]> http://www.bluedays.co.uk/2009/09/23/sheikh-mansour-buys-final-10-of-city-shares/feed/ 0