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else I’ll tell all to the media”. According to Helene, "It was a con. It’s a corrupt scheme gone haywire". Herve
Jaubert denied these allegations on the news website. According to Stirling, Latifa phoned her from the boat in the middle of the ambush, saying she feared for her life and “was hearing gunshots.” According to Stirling, Latifa made the call via WhatsApp and evidence of the call was provided to authorities in the US and UK and made available to reporters, although
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their way to India, by armed Indian military forces in international waters. In the judgement, Sir Andrew said Indian military assaulted and treated badly Latifa and Herve
Jaubert, threatening to kill them. Then, they handed them over to UAE authorities. Sir Andrew said there was no ground for doubting that it was Latifa who decided to escape from Dubai and not Herve Jaubert who was merely the facilitator.
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14 million. According to
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over it as a disguise. He slipped from his hotel to the beach at night disguised under the abaya and swam to the area's only police patrol boat, which was in a coastguard station, and climbed onto the boat and clogged its fuel lines to prevent pursuit. Next morning he made his escape on a rubber
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pointed out that a satellite phone is normally needed to call from their alleged location in the Indian Ocean. However, it was quickly established that the yacht
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14 million (US$ 3.8 million), Jaubert escaped from Dubai in a dinghy. He subsequently returned to Stuart, where he was a permanent US resident and wrote a book about his ordeal. On April 15, 2009, he was tried in absentia in Dubai and convicted of illegally acquiring
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