Omar Ben Salaad is an Arab merchant who appears in The Crab with the Golden Claws. He is a wealthy sheikh based in the port city of Bagghar in Morocco, then a French colony. Sheikh Omar Ben Salaad is voiced by Gad Elmaleh in the motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. He is portrayed as a collector and lover of classical music. He possesses one of the three replicas of The Unicorn. Bianca Castafiore unknowingly breaks the crystal case with her voice, thus permitting Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine to steal a capsule with the poem of the scroll.