Lately, a lot has been published about the alleged sex crimes of late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, accused of having raped, sexually abused or harassed hundreds of female employees.
But there’s another side to the billionaire Egyptian-born businessman: the bereaved father, desperately engaged in a quest for information about the death of his eldest son Dodi Al-Fayed and the ‘People’s Princess’ Diana in a Paris car crash in August 1997.
Now, a report shows that Al-Fayed paid Egyptian secret service agents millions for information about the death of Dodi and Diana.
The late Egyptian global billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed secretly paid Egyptian intelligence agents in London for years, hoping to confirm his belief that British intelligence was behind the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi — The @Telegraph
reports. Despite spending… pic.twitter.com/TRIS0JYFQz— ME24 – Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) June 21, 2025
He spent his last decade sending cash to Egyptian agents in London, expecting to obtain secret intelligence about the controversial crash.
The Telegraph reported:
“Sources say he hoped to receive confirmation from Egyptian secret service operatives of his belief that the British intelligence services had a hand in the fatal crash in the Alma tunnel.
Fayed had grown convinced that the British establishment feared the idea of Dodi, an Egyptian, as a possible stepfather to the future king.
At one stage, he told an Egyptian secret service agent that he knew the British intelligence services had killed the pair because they feared the possibility of the couple having a child who would be ‘a Muslim brother to the future king’.”
The Telegraph’s report assesses his expenses with intel to be into the ‘millions of pounds’, funding spies run by the Egyptian general intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, in London.
“One source with knowledge of the payments said: ‘Over a ten-year period, sums amounting to some millions of pounds were paid in cash or Bitcoin from Fayed through various companies to the Egyptian intelligence services for their operations in the UK and some in Ireland. The money was eventually paid to agents and officers’.”
Eventually, the Egyptian secret services told him the British establishment did not like her relationship with Dodi, but ‘they had no information to offer him about the way Dodi and Diana had died’.
“Sources have told The Telegraph: ‘Al-Fayed’s manner after the killing of his son Dodi was completely unbalanced, and he was always shouting when speaking to the Egyptian intelligence officers, which made them not pay much attention to his requests’.”
RIP Mohamed Al-Fayed, 94.
An extraordinary tour de force of a man who never got over the death of his beloved son Dodi in the crash that also killed Diana. Mohamed wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea and he was a flawed, complex character, but I liked him. pic.twitter.com/gMHSunkmzu— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 1, 2023
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