Harrods seeks to remove Mohamed Al-Fayed’s family members as executors of estate

Harrods is set to seek to remove family members of the late Mohamed Al-Fayed as executors of his estate at the High Court next month.

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00:00harrods is facing claims and will seek to get money from the estate of al fayed who owned the department

00:06store between nineteen eighty five and twenty ten to help pay settlements lawyers for the department store argue the al

00:14fayed estate is at risk of bankruptcy

00:16as it is worth around 111 million pounds harrods will apply to have al fayed's widow heinie waffen fired and

00:26his daughters camilla fired and jasmine linnea fired removed as executors of the estate and replaced by independent executors as

00:35a two-day hearing beginning on the third of november a judge ruled that ahead of the trial mrs waffen

00:42fired and camilla fired must provide harrods with information about

00:46whether the family is involved in the ownership of a company which owes debt to the estate she refused thirteen

00:54other requests for information by harrods saying they were tangential to the court's decision and denied a bid by harrods

01:02for mrs waffen fired to be required to give evidence at the trial

01:06kp law which represents 270 women who alleged they were sexually abused by al fayed says the total value of

01:13their claims is about 150 million pounds mr moberly smith told the court's kp law opposes the removal of the

01:21family as executors arguing it could slow down at the resolution of claims

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