Oryx Qatar Sports Investments

Oryx Qatar Sports Investments (QSi) is a privately held company founded in 2005 and located in Doha, Qatar. In QSi’s own words, its “ambition is to invest in profit-bearing projects within Qatar but also internationally. Revenues generated from these ventures are supposed to be reinvested into Qatar’s sport, leisure and entertainment sectors to benefit the community as a whole”. QSi is led by chairman Nasser Ghanim Al-Khelaifi and vice chairman Adel Mohammed Tayyeb Mustafawi, and its board of directors has three additional members.

Nasser Ghanim Al-Khelaifi has served as chairman of QSi since 2011, and is well known for his business ventures and various leadership roles in Qatar. He is currently chairman and chief executive officer of beIN Media Group in Qatar and the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club out of France. As a former professional tennis player, he serves as president of the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) and vice president of the Asian Tennis Federation for West Asia (ATF).

Adel Mohammed Tayyeb Mustafawi serves as vice chairman of QSi and holds various other leadership positions within the Qatari banking industry.

OSi’s three other board members include Yousif Mohammed Al-Obaidli, Mohammad Abdulaziz Al-Subaie and Sophie Jordan.

In November 2016, French newspaper Le Monde claimed it had receipts proving that QSi paid roughly $3.5 million between two separate 2011 wire transfers to Papa Massata Diack, head of Pamodzi Sports Consulting and son of former IAAF president, Lamine Diack, just days in advance of the vote for the 2017 athletics world championships. Qatar lost the opportunity to host the world championships to London.

Papa Massata Diack received a life ban from athletics in January 2016 for corruption after alleged participation in cover-ups of positive drug tests by Russian athletes in exchange for money. Diack insists his innocence in the scandal.

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