Nassef Sawiris's Gulfstream lands in Egypt after European swing, weeks after UK exit

Nassef Sawiris's Gulfstream G700 (tail M-USIK) was tracked departing Marj Ruhayyil Air Base in Syria at 09:08Z on June 24 and landing one hour and five minutes later at an airstrip in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. The flight followed a week of movements across Europe, including stops in London, Paris, and Abu Dhabi.

If aboard, Nassef Sawiris would arrive in Egypt the same month his family office's London branch was formally closed — a process completed in April after he relinquished UK residency, per Bloomberg and Nairametrics. The Egyptian billionaire, now based in Italy and Abu Dhabi, wound down NNS Group's London entity following the abolition of the UK's non-domicile tax status.

The return to Egypt comes after the owner of Aston Villa FC watched his club's European triumph: in May, Villa beat Freiburg to win the UEFA Europa League, a victory that pushed the club's enterprise value above £1 billion, per Billionaires Africa. The G700's visit to Paris on June 19, en route from Cairo, also fits the pattern of a busy schedule between football governance, fertilizer markets, and personal relocations.