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On 2 August 2021, Businessman Elie Taktouk was unanimously convicted of 11 counts of fraud and forgery offences relating to a failed property redevelopment in Knightsbridge following a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court (reported in the Daily Mail on 3 August 2021) 

On 23 September 2021 Elie Taktouk was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court (reported in the Daily Mail on 23 September 2021).

Mr Taktouk, ordered to attend for sentencing, failed to attend and was sentenced in his absence. A warrant was issued for his arrest and late the same night, Mr Taktouk was found by Police and arrested in a dramatic scene. Elie Taktouk was given a total sentence of 7 years for the fraud he committed.

He was also disqualified from being a director of any UK company for a period of ten years.  

During sentence, His Honour Judge Milne QC outlined the facts of the fraud and noted the findings of the jury: That Elie Taktouk