Rafed Al-Kharafi, the nephew of the Kuwait-based billionaire industrialist Nasser Al-Kharafi has also been active.

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With half a dozen Premier League clubs known to be up for sale, and Arab investors looking like the only ones willing to do the buying, Kharafi and Fahim won't be the last names the footballing world hears from the Middle East.

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He says he acted as a go-between for UBS and Zain's biggest shareholders, and met in December 2009 with the late Nasser Kharafi, a businessman who was Zain's largest shareholder, when he says UBS still was clamoring for a definite mandate to handle the transaction.

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