Katara Hospitality, a hotel-centric subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, closed Monday on a $600 million deal for full ownership of the Plaza Hotel. News of the sale comes after three other bidding groups struggled to negotiate a deal with the Plaza’s majority owner, Subrata Roy’s Sahara Group. But all along, Qatar’s former Prime Minister, Hassim Bin Jabber Al-Thani (known as HBJ),  owned more than $400 million of debt on the hotel that was set […]