In an odd coincidence, the day before Kevin McGeever reappeared on January 29 it was announced that work was to resume on half-completed Shami Tower in Sports City, Dubai.

By coincidence, Brouks Real Estate (The developer) posted an update on the development on the Shami Tower website on January 28 - the day before Mr McGeever reappeared. Work, it claimed, would "resume in a short period and the project is now being reactivated".
But there was a dark undertone to the update.
In addition to blaming "the worldwide turmoil and catastrophe in financial and property sector in UAE", for the long delay in the project, the writer, "project shareholder" Hassan Shah, referred obliquely to "many issues ie threats, allegations and blackmailing from many internal and external stakeholders", that had plagued the development.
Mr Shah, who gave his email address on the website, did not respond to a request for information about his company's involvement with KMM Property

In a clue as to who might have been behind McGeever’s kidnapping, sources told the MoS that in 2009, two men who claimed to be from the IRA went to McGeever’s apartment and hung him by his ankles over the balcony.
‘They were from the North. They held him over the balcony until he agreed to pay their money back. He gave them a cheque but it bounced later.’ The attack was witnessed by two people. The MoS has spoken to a friend of McGeever who confirmed it.