Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai orchestrated the abductions of two of his daughters and threatened his wife, a High Court judge has found.
The 70-year-old ruler ordered his men to kidnap his teenage daughter Sheikh Shamsa in Cambridge in 2000, before flying her out of the country from his horse-racing headquarters in Newmarket, the court ruled.
Shamsa, now 38, had been attempting to stay in the UK, but once returned to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) she has been “deprived of her liberty for much if not all of the past two decades”, Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division of the UK High Court has ruled.
The Sheikh, a personal friend to the British Royal Family, also ordered his men to stop another daughter, Sheikh Latifa, from fleeing Dubai in a daring undercover mission, the judge found.
According to him, Latifa, now 35, had tried to escape in 2018 but was caught after nine days on the run, when Indian…
Source: Linda Ikeji
