He is a Libyan businessman who lives in Dubai and carries a passport issued by the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
According to Italian media reports, he wears $500,000 watches, flies on private jets and stays at five-star hotels in central London.
He is said to own at least eight properties in the United Arab Emirates and a $3.7m apartment in Toronto, where he maintains permanent Canadian residency and donates to a prestigious private health foundation.
He controls banks, a state-owned enterprise and private companies in Libya, the UAE, Malta and the UK.
But, according to the United Nations' Panel of Experts on Libya and a detailed report by US investigative organisation The Sentry, Ahmed Gadalla is a key moneyman for Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), which controls eastern Libya and is backed by the UAE and Egypt.
