The movements of the Dubai hit team suspects


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Police said the main suspect is a man who used the name Peter Elvinger and carried a French passport. He is said to have been the gang's logistical co-ordinator and the one who booked room 237 in the Al Bustan Rotana hotel, down the corridor from the victim's room - number 230. The other suspects were identified as Gail Folliard, Kevin Daveron and Evan Dennings (all of whom are said to be Irish nationals); Paul John Keely, Stephen Daniel Hodes, Melvyn Adam Mildiner, Jonathan Louis Graham, James Leonard Clarke and Michael Lawrence Barney (all of whom are said to be British). Also wanted is a man identified as Michael Bodenheimer, who used a German passport.

Most of the suspects flew from Frankfurt, Paris, Rome and Zurich. Michael Bodenheimer travelled from Frankfurt. The suspects never made direct phones call to each other, instead making several calls to a number in Austria that police believe was a command centre. January 19, 2010 12.30am Kevin Daveron and Gail Folliard, both holding Irish passports, arrive in Dubai on Air France flight 526 from Paris.

1.21am Folliard checks into room 1102 of the Emirates Towers hotel. 1.31am Daveron checks in into room 3308 of the Emirates Towers. 2.29am Peter Elvinger, who is said to be 49 and holds a French passport, arrives at Dubai International Airport from Zurich. 2.36am Elvinger leaves the airport for a few minutes and later returns. He is suspected of meeting with one of the Palestinian suspects now in Dubai Police custody.

2.39am Elvinger meets with a team member in the airport before leaving in a taxi. 2.40am Another of the 11 suspects leaves the airport after Elvinger. 2.46am Elvinger checks in to room 518 in an unnamed Dubai hotel. 10.30am Elvinger visits an unidentified mall in Dubai. 10.30am Three other unidentified suspects arrive at Dubai Mall. 10.50am Folliard and Daveron arrive at Dubai Mall.

11.30am Folliard leaves the mall alone. 12.18pm Daveron leaves with one of the suspects. 12.41pm Two other unidentified suspects leave Dubai Mall. 1.37pm Daveron checks out from his room in the Emirates Towers. 1.45pm Daveron arrives at an unidentified hotel to use one of the bathrooms to disguise himself. 2.12pm The first surveillance team arrives at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel. The two suspects are wearing tennis clothes.

2.14pm Daveron arrives at the Fairmont hotel. 2.21pm Two other suspects arrive at the Fairmont. 2.30pm A suspect from a surveillance team arrives at a hotel anticipating the arrival of al Mabhouh. It is believed they were not certain where al Mabhouh was staying, so they had to send someone to another Dubai hotel that al Mabhouh frequented. The suspect leaves after he is told the target will check in to the Al Bustan Rotana.

2.41pm Elvinger checks out of his hotel. 3.21pm Folliard checks out of her hotel room in the Emirates Towers. 3.23pm Another suspect arrives at the Fairmont to join Daveron and other suspects. 3.19 pm A surveillance team awaits al Mabhouh's arrival at Dubai International Airport. 3.20pm Al Mabhouh leaves Dubai International Airport and is tracked by a member of the team.

3.25pm Folliard goes to another Dubai hotel's bathroom to disguise herself, putting on a brown wig to hide her blonde hair. 3.25pm Al Mabhouh arrives at the Al Bustan Rotana. He is followed by two members of the gang to determine room he will be staying in. His room number is communicated to the other members of the group. 3.47pm Folliard and Daveron join other suspects at the Fairmont.

3.51pm Elvinger uses the business centre of a Crowne Plaza hotel. There, he books room 237 in the Al Bustan Rotana as well as outbound flight. 4.03pm A new surveillance team arrives at the Al Bustan Rotana. 4.14pm Daveron leaves the Fairmont for the Al Bustan Rotana. 4.16pm Folliard leaves the Fairmont with some of the other suspects and heads towards the Al Bustan Rotana.

4.23 pm Al Mabhouh leaves the Al Bustan Rotana and he is followed by a suspect. 4.25pm Daveron arrives at the Al Bustan Rotana. 4.33pm Elvinger checks into room 237 of the Al Bustan Rotana. 4.40pm Elvinger leaves the hotel after giving his key to Daveron. 6.34pm Members of the suspected execution team arrive at the Al Bustan Rotana. 6.41pm Two surveillance teams are replaced by two others.

7.30pm Elvinger leaves the country through Dubai International Airport. 8.00pm Police suspect that, at this point, the execution team tried and failed to enter al Mabhouh's room. The door access control panel showed a failed attempt to reprogramme the door to room 230. 8.00pm Daveron, posing as a member of the hotel staff, gives the signal to the rest of the crew to withdraw after a hotel guest enters the corridor.

8.24pm Al Mabhouh returns to the hotel. 8.27pm Folliard and Daveron monitor the corridor while the execution team act. 8.46pm The execution team leaves the hotel. 8.47pm Folliard leaves the hotel with another suspect. 8.51pm Daveron leaves the hotel. 8.52pm The surveillance teams leave the hotel. 10.30pm Daveron and Folliard leave the country for Paris. Evan Dennings departs to Zurich four hours after the crime; James Leonard Clarke leaves after 12 hours for Frankfurt; Melvyn Adam Mildiner and Stephen Daniel Hodes leave for South Africa after two hours; Michael Bodenheimer and Jonathan Louis Graham head for Hong Kong after three hours; and Michael Lawrence Barney leaves after 10 hours for Frankfurt.

January 20 1.30 pm Al Mabhouh is found dead in his room. Staff open the door to the victim's room, which was locked from the inside with the latch and chain in place. Initial medical reports stated that the cause of the death was an increase in blood pressure in the brain.

Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.

Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.

Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.

Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.

“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.

Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.

From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.

Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.

BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.

Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.

Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.

“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.

Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.

“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.

“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”

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