An expat businessman has paid almost $9 million for a unique Dubai number plate at an auction.
Balwinder Sahani, a Dubai-based Indian businessman, paid $8.9 million (AED33 million) for number plate D5 at the Roads and Transport Authority’s number plate auction on Saturday.
He is the owner of RSG International, a property management company, with interests in the UAE, Kuwait, India and the United States, Gulf News reported.
“I like collecting unique number plates and I am proud to have got this number. I like number nine and D5 adds up to nine, so I went for it,” Sahani told the newspaper.
In 2015, he purchased the number O9 for $6.81 million (AED25 million).
Eighty unique numbers were offered on Saturday ranging from one two five digits. Q77 was purchased by an Emirati bidder for $1.23million (AED4.52 million), P27 was sold for $583,106 (AED2.14 million) while R7777 was bought for $318,801 (AED1.17 million).
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