Licence plate brings $14m

Published February 18, 2008

ABU DHABI, Feb 17: A licence plate bearing simply the number “1” fetched what organisers said was a world record $14 million at a charity auction here on Saturday.

The price paid by Saeed Abdel Khouri, 25, beat a record set by one of his relatives in September, the organisers said in a statement.

The record has been submitted to the Guinness World Records book, they said.

Proceeds from the auction will fund construction of a specialised emergency hospital in the seven-member United Arab Emirates. —Reuters

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