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Ryan Cornelius
British property developer (born 1954)
Ryan Cornelius
Ryan Cornelius (born 1954) is a British property developer who has been detained in the United Arab Emirates since 2008. In 2011, he was convicted alongside three co-defendants in connection with a US$501 million loan from Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Cornelius has disputed the allegations against him, and in 2025 the European Parliament described his conviction as being based on "false fraud charges related to a loan from Dubai Islamic Bank". Shortly before Cornelius was due to complete his original sentence in 2018, a Dubai court extended his imprisonment by a further 20 years under Dubai Law No. 37 of 2009 in connection with an alleged outstanding debt. In 2022, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found Cornelius's detention to be arbitrary and called for his immediate release and compensation. In July 2026, a group of UN human-rights experts again called for his immediate release, saying that the proceedings leading to the additional...
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