Maybe some dim journo got a little confused between ADEC and ADUG and it snowballed from there.Really? The Executive Council of Abu Dhabi?
I am trying to square the circle of the Open Skies document which suggests that ADEC paid City's sponsorship and the statements from the witnesses at CAS that Etihad paid for its sponsorship out of its own funds, by reasoning that that may be true but funds could have come originally from ADEC to Etihad specifically to pay City. So everybody was right.
I am not sure I see the problem with that.