After the divorce, the British justice condemns the sovereign of Dubai to pay a record amount to his ex-wife and children.
It seems like a very complicated novel plot, but it happened in real life. After a complicated divorce and a flight abroad, Princess Haya, who for 14 years was married to the sovereign of Dubai, Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, should receive about 550 million pounds (about 725 million dollars), in the Highest divorce compensation awarded by an English court.
Judge Philip Moor ordered the 72-year-old head of government of the United Arab Emirates to pay some 251.5 million pounds ($ 340 million) to his sixth wife, Princess Haya of Jordan, 47, and 290 million pounds. pounds ($ 385 million) to support her two children, ages 9 and 14, as well as other expenses, including security.
According to the ruling released this Tuesday, the amount that includes tens of thousands of pounds for vacations or expenses related to pets, such as the care of could vary depending on various factors, for example if the children reconcile with their father.
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“Taking into account their position and the general threats of terrorism and kidnapping that they face in such circumstances, they are considered to be particularly vulnerable and in need of greater security guarantees in this country,” Judge Moor said in delivering his verdict.
“The main threat they face comes from the (ruler) himself, and not from external sources,” he added.
Blackmail and espionage
The story includes an episode of blackmail by the princess’s security team, so that the Sheikh of Dubai does not find out about an affair with a bodyguard. To silence the staff in charge of her care, Princess Haya raised $ 1.5 million from the sale of jewelry and money from the bank account of one of her children.
The Superior Court had determined last October that Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum authorized the hacking of his wife’s phone and those of his British lawyers.
It was not proven that such events were linked to the legal battle in the United Kingdom between his wife and him, who wants to obtain the return of their two children to Dubai, but a “very important” volume of data was extracted from the princess’s mobile , about 265 megabytes – the equivalent of 24 hours of voice recording or 500 photographs.
The magistrate stressed that the sovereign had “harassed and intimidated the mother (of his children) before his departure for England and since his arrival”, and that he was “willing to tolerate that those who act on his behalf in the United Kingdom do so. did it illegally ”.
Record financial compensation
The financial compensation measures agreed on Tuesday are among the most important so far granted in the framework of a divorce agreement before the British court since the case of the ex-wife of Russian billionaire Farjad Ajmedov, Tatiana Ajmedova.
At the end of 2016, justice had awarded Ajmedova 41% of her ex-husband’s fortune, which represents 453 million pounds (almost 600 million dollars).
A spokesman for Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stated last week that the sovereign of Dubai “has always ensured that his children are protected from need.”
“The court has now given its decision on the financial aspect and he does not intend to speak further,” continued this spokesman, specifying that the sovereign “asks the media to respect the private life of his children and not interfere in their life in the United Kingdom”.
Hostages of his father
In March 2020, a family court had decided that Al Maktoum had “commissioned and orchestrated” the kidnapping of two of his children, Princess Shamsha and her sister Latifa, whom he had with another wife.
Princess Latifa, who had tried in vain to flee Dubai by boat in 2018, claimed that she was being held as a “hostage” by her father. Last June, he said he was free “to travel,” through his law firm.
Latifa had urged British police to re-investigate her sister Shamsha’s 2000 abduction in Cambridge, in a letter dated 2018 and revealed in 2021 by the BBC.
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The sheikh will also have to pay the remodeling of the luxurious home in London’s Kensington neighborhood, where Haya now lives with her children. These renovations include an extension to the kitchen to add a wood-fired pizza oven, the reform of his art studio, the extension of the garage for the fleet of security vehicles Y the installation of trampolines like the ones her sons Jalila and Zayed had in Dubai. (I)
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