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Barry Conway
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Interesting article in the latest Private Eye, No. 1340

"Successful racehorse owner Marwan Koukash emerged earlier this year as the rescuer of Salford Reds rugby league club. He acquired control of the club as it was threatened with winding up by the taxman.
Koukash, a Palestinian from Kuwait who has lived in Britain for many years, was described as a millionaire businessmanon the back of his training business EuroMaTech, which has operations in Liverpool and the United Arab Emirates. However, other ventures have been less succesful.
El Layla Properties and Layla Hotels Liverpool collapsed in January and March last year. The property company was owned by Koukash and his wife Amanda. El Layla owned a site in St Helens that cost £500,000 in 2006, was bought with a £392,000 mortgage from the C-Operative bank but was valued last year at just £250,000 and received a bid of just £10,000. (No doubt typical o the bad loans that threatened the Co-Op bank's future.) Creditors are owed £1.4m.
Layla Hotel Liverpool was a proposed prestige project subject to prolonged delays but is no operating as a Hilton hotel. Koukash transferred his 50% to the company Iliad Koukash in 2011. Iliad reportedly sold out to Dubai investors. The hotel company listed no assets and a deficiency for creditors of £292,000.
Koukash is also a director and shareholder of the Oxford Management Centre, which is being threatened with striking off due to the failure to file any accounts since 2011.
No doubt the prospects for Salford Reds will be much brighter."
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Report blackbarn May 15, 2013 9:48 PM BST
I really really hope that I am wrong about him, but it just does seem too good to be true. Remember Terry Ramsden and others.
Report turnip turns May 15, 2013 9:50 PM BST
None of that surprises me tbh,only a matter of time before it all goes t i t s up imoTongue Out
Report miprixabloater May 15, 2013 9:54 PM BST
I bet there are a few trainers whose bums are beginning to twitch.
Report durose13 May 15, 2013 9:57 PM BST
butox you meanSilly
Report blackbarn May 15, 2013 9:57 PM BST
not just because of this article though miprix..  !!
Report blackbarn May 15, 2013 9:59 PM BST
Given the number of trainers he has got through, the itchy bu.ms are now outnumbered by the shaft3d.
Report Smiley_Jack May 15, 2013 10:11 PM BST
like so many other paper multi millionaires, one minute they are worth 100 + million next minute they don't have enough for the gas bill. Duncan Bannatyne looks like he'll be the next dragon to end up skint
Report Smiley_Jack May 15, 2013 10:13 PM BST
As keynes the economics guru once said
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
Report durose13 May 15, 2013 10:16 PM BST
Its all fekkin Kaka and Wawa if you ask me
Report geordie1956 May 15, 2013 10:40 PM BST
The only "really" rich people are those with proper bloodstock investments who sell to the idiots at hugely inflated prices
Report wasnot May 15, 2013 10:48 PM BST
Surely not another Allen Stanford?
Report duncan idaho May 15, 2013 10:59 PM BST
Gabrial's Potless
Gabrial the Shyster
Report Angel Gabrial May 15, 2013 11:06 PM BST
Confused
Report flushgordon1 May 15, 2013 11:33 PM BST
marwan nocash?
Report Anaglogs Daughter May 16, 2013 12:35 AM BST
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/911756333
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 6:03 AM BST
doesnt seem very much to me, any business man with any degree of success will encounter bad investments and the liverpool thing looks just that a bad investment the oxford thing has no detail at all he could be a non-exec
Report dunlaying May 16, 2013 9:54 AM BST
That has cheered me up no end.
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 10:09 AM BST
Shock Horror. Major racehorse owner could be a bit dodgy         Shocked
Has this ever been known before      Laugh
Report Smiley_Jack May 16, 2013 10:59 AM BST
Director Summary

Marwan Koukash holds 4 current appointment, has resigned from 0 companies and held appointments at 2 dissolved companies. Marwan began their first appointment at the age of 47 and their longest current appointment spans 6 years and 5 months at EL LAYLA PROPERTIES LIMITED.

The combined cash at bank value for all of Marwan's current businesses is £264,740, with a combined assets value of £273,881 and liabilities of £835,010. Roles associated with Marwan Koukash within the recorded businesses include: Company Director , No Function
Cry
Report kavvie May 16, 2013 11:22 AM BST
amazing all the bad minded people and begrudgers on here.the man gives a lot to charity and his hobby is owning racehorses,just like rich ricci.people seem to have a problem with success.i say fair dues marwan and fcuk the begrudgers!
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 11:27 AM BST
I am of course not saying Koukash is a crook,but if a drug-dealer say gave 10% of his profits to charity would that make him an OK guy ?
Report miprixabloater May 16, 2013 11:30 AM BST
salmon I know a convicted drug pedlar who gave a lot more than 10% of his profits to

jockeys when he got convicted he still got 25 years.
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 11:36 AM BST
he may end up as the new bernie maydorff but this is feck all really but mud slinging
Report duncan idaho May 16, 2013 11:46 AM BST
bernie maydorff and schnorbitz?
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 11:47 AM BST
Slim Pickens. The Capitalists' Friend       Crazy
Report miprixabloater May 16, 2013 11:48 AM BST
slim, it would not be unique for a big owner to hit bad times, in my time in racing there

has been dozens, however I cast no aspersions on Dr Koukash.
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 11:52 AM BST
no just a life long reader of the eye, they do get rather a lot wrong and can be used to start rumours, they can be on occasion a bit snobby believe it or not as well
Report jimeen May 16, 2013 11:53 AM BST
Whatever the doctors financial circumstances are ,who knows ?. But when you look at the calibre of people who train and worse again ride for him,then he will be doing remarkably well to be able to survive them.
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 11:53 AM BST
Hislop a snob. Shirley not         Shocked
Report miprixabloater May 16, 2013 12:05 PM BST
salmon, Hislop is a child of the the well heeled, guaranteed an ex public schoolboy probably

Wellington or Marlborough.
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 12:08 PM BST
Yes I was being ironic. He's certainly a Public schoolboy. I think he is funny and has a certain integrity though.
Report howard May 16, 2013 12:09 PM BST
Thank God for that. Thought you were talking about Lydia.
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 12:13 PM BST
lydia is infinitely more likable, the saucy sexpott, hislop seems to have integrity, he couldbe being used this story is 2 years old gents, think if the doc was skint we wud have heards about it, antway going skint is no crime
Report miprixabloater May 16, 2013 12:13 PM BST
salmon, I also like Hislop his documentaries re the 1st World War I thought were outstandingly good.
Report gambler no.1 May 16, 2013 12:31 PM BST
I like her on Have I Got Lays For You with Mellish.
Report Anaglogs Daughter May 16, 2013 1:01 PM BST
Private Eye Lift Dodgy Story http://order-order.com/2013/05/15/private-eye-lift-dodgy-story/
Report howard May 16, 2013 1:03 PM BST
As Larry Grayson said "To be skint is no crime , to look skint is unforgivable "
Report the dealer May 16, 2013 1:09 PM BST
Marwan Koukash holds 4 current appointment, has resigned from 0 companies and held appointments at 2 dissolved companies. Marwan began their first appointment at the age of 47 and their longest current appointment spans 6 years and 5 months at EL LAYLA PROPERTIES LIMITED.

The combined cash at bank value for all of Marwan's current businesses is £264,740, with a combined assets value of £273,881 and liabilities of £835,010. Roles associated with Marwan Koukash within the recorded businesses include: Company Director , No Function


Company Name     Company Status     Appointed     Resigned
OXFORD MANAGEMENT CENTRE LIMITED     Active     12/06/2009     -
LAYLA HOTEL LIVERPOOL LIMITED     In Liquidation     07/02/2007     -
EL LAYLA PROPERTIES LIMITED     In Liquidation     27/11/2006     -
EL LAYLA PROPERTIES LIMITED     In Liquidation     27/11/2006     -
BRITANNIA MANAGEMENT TRAINING LIMITED     Dissolved     12/11/2008     -
BRITANNIA MANAGEMENT TRAINING LIMITED     Dissolved     12/11/2008     -
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 1:13 PM BST
i dont think the company he sold was registered her, the rules were changed when the likes of berizoski et all were given the keys to london, he seems a well mannered man with a comely wife and some more than comely daughters
Report salmon spray May 16, 2013 1:17 PM BST
Does that constitute an offer for one of them ?
Report Slim Pickens May 16, 2013 1:18 PM BST
i am not sure the good doc is in need of a border collie but if he is then yes even the ugly yin
Report the dealer May 16, 2013 1:22 PM BST
LaughLaugh
Report the dealer May 16, 2013 1:27 PM BST
to sustain what he is doing, including the rebuilding of the stud he has bought, will take a hefty bank balance. it doesnt appear to my untrained business eye that he is extremely wealthy, of course i may well be wrong. i suppose the next few years will tell the story.
Report john92 May 16, 2013 1:45 PM BST
Looks like Layla has got him on his knees.
Report carrot1960 May 16, 2013 2:46 PM BST
the company bidding/proposing  to build the £34 billion  severn barrage had £97 in the bank last year.
Report miss.wales May 16, 2013 2:56 PM BST
john92

Looks like Layla has got him on his knees.

Laugh
Report BARROWBOY May 16, 2013 2:58 PM BST
Layla might have a domino effect on his finances.
Report reculver May 16, 2013 3:35 PM BST
Frank will ruin him before his business does
Report grey shark May 16, 2013 4:42 PM BST
Paul Beck who had all those jumpers a few years back was another dodgy type imo , had some big luvin with now Z listed Andy Flintoff
Report Deltâ May 16, 2013 4:45 PM BST
and Venietta
Report grey shark May 16, 2013 4:46 PM BST
Vienetta only eats her own kind ........
Report duffy May 16, 2013 4:59 PM BST
his horses were on a constant merry go round , in and out of guest and venetias yard...remember old stan
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