Gadhafi's Son Owns $1.5M Toronto Condo

Property records show just what kind of person would want to live in CityPlace.

The National Post reports today that one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, Saadi, owns a luxury condo in downtown Toronto. Saadi Gadhafi, 38, used to be a professional soccer player before getting into the family business of brutal repression (he was the head of the Libyan secret forces). Along the way, in 2008, Saadi plopped down $1.55 million for the waterfront condo just steps away from the SkyDome. Gadhafi apparently didn't stay at the condo all that much – even when he was in Toronto for business, he would usually stay at hotels. But Gadhafi has somehow managed to keep paying monthly condo fees to the building's owners despite a worldwide asset freeze on the former Libyan regime that should have made such payments impossible. Gadhafi was recently implicated in a plot to get him smuggled to Mexico from Niger with a falsified passport. The new Libyan government, the Transitional National Council, is trying to free up some $150 billion in frozen assets around the world, although it's not clear what use they would have for a luxury condo suite in CityPlace, besides having a destination to show off shirts with their collars popped, yoga pants, designer dogs, and other expensive items of questionable taste.