Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil:Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil

Who is Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil:Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil?

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil was a Lebanese-Sierra Leonean businessman and diamond tycoon who made millions of dollars in the diamond trade, fisheries, tourism and an airline. He was exiled from Sierra Leone amidst accusations of a coup plot in 1987 before returning to Freetown few years later and fleeing the country again after the Freetown invasion in 1999.

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil built his vast fortune exporting diamonds to Antwerp during the 1970s and 1980s. He was arguably the most successful Lebanese trader in West Africa. As a result of his activities, he became one of the richest and most powerful men in Africa. However, along with, then-President Siaka Stevens, he is widely accused to have played a major role in the destruction of the Sierra Leonean economy, leaving a senseless legacy of poverty in his wake.

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone to a Sierra Leonean father of Lebanese descent.