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A lawsuit accuses members of the emirate’s ruling family of stringing the Irish hotelier, Patrick McKillen, along on high-end developments as “part of a yearslong pattern of illegal racketeering.” Patrick McKillen, an Irish hotelier, was once close to Qatari royals, flying to Doha to talk shop with sheikhs on yachts and envisioning the development of their high-end properties in London, Paris and the French Riviera. But Mr. McKillen, 70, is now suing prominent members of the family that rules Qatar, accusing them of plotting, over years, not to pay him millions of dollars for services while he worked on “ultra luxury” hotels and apartments on multiple continents. Those services included consulting on potential purchases, leading renovations and making other improvements. In the lawsuit filed in federal court in California last week, Mr. McKillen’s lawyers accused Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al… (Updated 1 Oct 2025, 23:28 IST; source: link)