Yasseen Mansour

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Yasseen Mansour (born 1961 or 1962) is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, a part owner of the Mansour Group and chairman of Palm Hills Developments. The youngest son of the group's founder Loutfy Mansour and a brother of the businessmen Mohamed Mansour and Youssef Mansour, he was cleared of corruption charges in 2011 after paying 250 million Egyptian pounds to the authorities, and multiple Credit Suisse accounts of his appeared in the Suisse Secrets leaks.

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    Yasseen Mansour is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, a part owner of the Mansour Group and chairman of Palm Hills Developments, the real-estate company he built into the second-largest listed property developer in Egypt. He is the youngest son of Loutfy Mansour, who founded the family's automotive business, and a brother of the businessmen Mohamed Mansour and Youssef Mansour. 1 2

    Life

    Mansour was born in 1961 or 1962; the two articles give the range in their leads, the English infobox gives his age as 53 as of June 2015 citing his Forbes profile, while Wikidata gives the year 1960. 1 3 He was the youngest of the sons of Loutfy Mansour, founder of the family group; his brothers are Ismail, Youssef and Mohamed Mansour, and he has a sister, Rawya. 1 He earned a bachelor's degree from George Washington University and joined the family business in 1986, working for Mansour Motors. 1 He is married with four children and lives in Cairo. 1 2

    Work

    Together with his brother Mohamed, Yasseen Mansour co-founded the Mansour & Maghraby Investment and Development Company, which became the majority owner of Palm Hills Developments, founded in 2005. He serves as chairman of Palm Hills and developed it into Egypt's second-largest publicly listed real-estate developer. 1 In 2011 he was cleared of corruption charges after paying 250 million Egyptian pounds to the authorities. 1 The Suisse Secrets data leaks later showed that he held multiple accounts at Credit Suisse, one of them opened in 1993 and closed in 2013. 1 Forbes put his net worth at US$1.5 billion in September 2019, and he has also appeared as a judge on the Egyptian edition of Shark Tank. 1 2

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    1. Yasseen Mansour — English Wikipedia
    2. Yasseen Mansour — Arabic Wikipedia
    3. Yasseen Mansour — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Yasseen Mansour”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yasseen-mansour/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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