Saudi prince "refused" to pay fee on Gaddafi jet sale Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, one of the world's richest men, "simply refused" to pay $10m commission to a Jordanian businesswoman who arranged the $120m sale of his private jet to Colonel Muammer Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader, it has been claimed in the London High Court. The extraordinary legal wrangle between the Saudi prince and Daad Sharab centres around her claims she is owed commission by the prince following her role in the sale of an Airbus jet to the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company. It is set to result in the prince, a prominent investor with stakes in Citigroup and News International, giving evidence at the High Court next week. He is likely to be the first member of the Saudi royal family to do so in a colourful trial that features meetings in locations from London and Libya and on board the prince's yacht and private jet. Ms Sharab, who is giving evidence, claims that between 1999 and 2004 "my work for the prince took up about half of my working time in Libya." In her witness statement she alleges that in August 2001 the prince told her he wanted to sell either his Airbus or Boeing aircraft and so she flew to meet the prince on his yacht in Cannes where commission was discussed. Ms Sharab claims in her statement: "He told me that it would need to be sold to a president because of the specifications of the aircraft. He suggested Colonel Gaddafi was an obvious choice. A meeting was arranged in London restaurant Ayoush during August 2001 with Fouad Mahmoud Alaeddin, an accountant who she claims was the prince's representative and a $2m commission was discussed, it is alleged. She claims: "It was by no means easy to persuade the president to view either plane as at that time there were approximately five or six such aircraft being offered to him for sale by one party or another." Her evidence alleges Prince Al-Waleed then visited Libya in April 2003 with both planes to show to Colonel Gaddafi and the Airbus was left in Libya. Ms Sharab claims in her witness statement: "It was also around this time, when we were very close to closing the deal, that the Prince made a proposal of marriage to me. He did so out of the blue. I always refused. Ms Sharab also claims in her witness statement that Colonel Gaddafi paid $70m but the aircraft was then allegedly taken back by the prince to Saudi Arabia for re-registration until the remaining payment was made. "The president, however, was extremely upset that the prince had taken the plane," she claims in the court papers. Her witness statement also refers to meeting the prince in August 2005 at the Hotel George V in Paris, which he owns. "It was not necessary for us to use a meeting room as the prince has a particular corner in the lounge of the hotel where he sits with his own Reuters screen, and from where he conducts his meetings," she claims. Ms Sharab alleges the prince later concluded the aircraft deal by "circumventing" her. Colonel Gaddafi used the plane to pick up Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi when he was freed from a Scottish jail in 2009. Christopher Pymont QC representing the prince told the court that no commission was paid because Ms Sharab's involvement was "disastrous" and even if there had been an agreement in Cannes this was governed by French, not English, law.