The amount of compensation that the monarch emirati Mohamed Ben Rached Al-Maktoum was sentenced to pay, by a London Court, to his ex-wife, Haya Bint Al-Hussein, made this case the most expensive separation of The history of British justice.
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A resounding divorce trial in London has come up a corner of the veil that masks opulence and violence in some palaces of the Middle East. Tuesday, December 21, a London Court sentenced the Sheikh Mohammed Ben Rachid Al-Maktoum, Emir de Dubai, to pay 554 million pounds (650 million euros) compensation to his ex-wife, Princess Haya bint al- Hussein, daughter of fire King Hussein of Jordan.
The trial revealed how the emir tried to intimidate his old wife, tried to buy in secret the neighboring house of his country residence, and used the Pegasus cybersurveillance software to infiltrate his cell phones and those of his collaborators. “It constitutes a serious risk for the safety [of the princess] and his children,” said Philip Moor J.
The story begins as a tale of a thousand and one nights. On the one hand, the monarch of the impairment cited-state, 72 years old, who dreams of making his city a rival of New York. On the other hand, the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third woman, currently 47 years old. Of their marriage in 2004 are born two children, aged 9 and 13 today.
But the relationship goes wrong. The princess trompes her husband with a bodyguard, who makes her sing by threatening to tell their connection. The emir is renowned for its violence. “He ordered and orchestrated the kidnapping of two of his children,” said the judge. In 2000, Sheikh Mohamed has indeed removed, in the streets of Cambridge, one of his daughters, Princess Shamsa, who had tried to escape from friends settled in the British capital. In 2018, another of his daughters, Princess Latifa, was, the same, brought back from force to his father, while she was on a yacht off India.
A certain lifestyle
In these conditions, Princess Haya believes not having the choice: in April 2019, she fled to London, not without having sent eight tons of personal business beforehand. She takes refuge with her two children in a huge mansion of the center of the British capital, bought in 2016 for 87 million pounds (102 million euros). But his ex-husband cuts him the food.
It is then constrained, she explained to justice, sell her business to survive: her horses, for more than 10 million euros, jewelry, for 2.5 million euros, Luxury bags … Redoubting a kidnapping, it must also pay a very high security fee, estimated at 11 million pounds, including shielded cars, bodyguards, video surveillance, etc.
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