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FBI ‘duped into helping sheikh seize daughter in yacht raid’
The FBI was tricked into helping the ruler of Dubai abduct his daughter from a yacht as she tried to escape his control, it has been claimed. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was seized by Indian army commandos off the coast of Goa in March 2018. She claimed to have been held prisoner by her…
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How the FBI played a role in the capture of Princess Latifa of Dubai
On a yacht in the Indian Ocean, heavily armed commandos seized the princess. “Shoot me here! Don’t take me back!” Princess Latifa – whose full name is Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum – screamed during the raid in March 2018 as the armed men bound her wrists. They had been sent by her father, the billionaire…
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‘Kidnapped’ Princess Latifa pictured at Madrid airport
Friends of a Dubai princess who claimed to have been kidnapped and held captive by her billionaire father are suspending a campaign to free her after a photograph appeared to show her on holiday in Spain with a British teacher. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, appeared in the…
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Has Dubai’s Missing Princess Latifa Surfaced for Good?
In 2018, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum tried to flee Dubai by boat. Her father is Dubai’s ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, and the dramatic plan to sail across the Indian Ocean was scuttled when soldiers detained her and brought her back to Dubai. Latifa then went troublingly quiet, eventually prompting a United Nations…
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Dubai ruler’s Kildare stud receives €225,000 in state grants
A stud farm in Kildare owned by Dubai’s billionaire ruler received more than €225,000 in state grants last year. Godolphin Ireland, owned by the Al Maktoum family, received the third largest agricultural subsidy of 2020, according to data published by the Department of Agriculture. It received €222,277 in direct farm payments under the common agriculture…
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Camera ‘is lying’ in pictures of Dubai princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum
Two British women who published photographs of nights out with a missing Dubai princess were ordered to do so, a source close to her has claimed, raising fresh fears for the 35-year-old’s health. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, daughter of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, claimed in videos leaked to the media in February that she…
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Princess Latifa ‘free’ as lawyers target Dubai sheikh
The British government has been asked to impose sanctions on the ruler of Dubai for the abduction of his daughter who appears to have been freed from her “villa jail”. Photographs of Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum have been released more than three years after she was seized from a yacht while trying to escape…
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New photo shows missing Dubai princess with friends
A Middle Eastern princess kidnapped at sea while trying to escape her powerful billionaire father has appeared in a photograph sitting outside a cinema in a Dubai mall with her friends. Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoum — daughter of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum — claimed in videos shared with the media in…
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The Derby, the Sheikh and the Missing Princess (Or: How Human Rights Became the Talk of a Horse Race)
The ruler of Dubai has spent a fortune pursuing Kentucky glory. In Essential Quality, Saturday’s favorite, he has his best chance—but it comes at his ugliest moment. The select yearling sale at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., is where the world’s big players converge each year to throw staggering sums of money at thoroughbred…
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We Know Where the Sheikh’s Horse Is. But Where Is His Daughter?
For nearly 40 years, Dubai’s ruler has spent vast sums here in central Kentucky. On thousands of acres of lush bluegrass with gently rolling hills mapped by limestone and plank fences. On horses — stallions and mares to populate his farms with foals and yearlings purchased in the sales ring. All in pursuit of winning a…