Mohamed Al Fayed decided to sell Harrods after the pension scheme trustee refused to clear a dividend payment.
In an interview with the London Evening Standard, the former department store owner said he became "completely disillusioned" after he spent three months attempting to extract a dividend. Al Fayed said: "How this can happen? I've owned the place for 26 years. I have 5000 people to look after. We have a pension scheme which it is my duty to subsidise. Come every year, sometime £10m, £20m, £30m I pay from the profits to be sure my pensioners have money to live. "But it came just as a surprise that the government put a body in called pension trustee. I'm here every day, I can't take my p...
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