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When it comes to getting your hands on an attractive, easy to remember and a great future investment… these men have gone an extra mile to purchase the world’s most expensive and attractive number plates. All these rich men have their own personal car collection and come from a business-related background. All these plates were sold in auctions and some of them carry a great history such as the ‘VIP-1’ plate.
Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri
Saeed is a businessman from United Arab Emirates and is currently the person who paid highest amount of money to buy a number plate for his personal use. He purchased the plate number ‘1’ in an Abu Dhabi auction for $14.5 million which is the world’s most expensive number plate anyone has ever purchased in the history for a registration plate anywhere in the world. Khouri is the CEO of Abdul Khaleq Al Khouri & Bros Co and CEO of Milipol International Est.
Talal Ali Mohammed Khoury
Talal is a businessman from United Arab Emirates and is the chairman of Al Awael Holding of Abu Dhabi. He paid £3.4 million for the number plate 5. He also later purchased the number plate ‘55’ for £800,000. When asked he mentioned that he holds no significance for these numbers.
Afzal Khan
Afzal Khan is a British entrepreneur from UK. He is the CEO of Kahn Design. He purchased the registration plate F1 sold at an auction for £440,000. The plate was previously owned by the Essex county council chairman. The plate is now back up for sales and is currently being listed for sale at £14million pounds.
Mike McCommb
Mike is a British business who sold his mobile phone store to BT cellnet for £40million. He purchased the registration plate M1 in 2006 for £330,000 three times more than the price. The plate was previously owned by Tatton Park to raise money for the grounds.
Roman Abramovich
Roman is an Israeli-Russian businessman and politician; he is also the owner of the Chelsea football club. He purchased the registration plate VIP-1 for £285,000 in 2006. The registration plate VIP-1 was first created by the Irish government when Pop John Paul 2 visited in 1979. It is now estimated to be over £500,000.
