Key section: “City told a Uefa panel more than six years ago that a mystery figure who made two £15million payments to cover sponsorship money in 2012 and 2013 was a financial broker called Jaber Mohamed. It later emerged that at the time Mohamed was the general director of the United Arab Emirates’ Crown Prince Court (CPC). The money should have been paid by the UAE’s majority-state-owned telecommunications company Etisalat — and makes up one of the “sham” deals a Premier League-appointed independent commission ruled last week were used to disguise equity funding by the club owner Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG). City did not disclose the CPC link to Uefa — by contrast they insisted “the payment was caused to be made by ADUG”. However, City’s main argument in their appeal against guilty verdicts in more than 100 Premier League charges is set to be that their principal deals with UAE sponsors, such as Etihad and Etisalat, were funded by the Abu Dhabi government, not the club’s owner. The appeal is expected to be held before mid-December.”   submitted by   /u/TyFighter25 [link]   [comments]