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FBI helped UAE track down prime minister’s runaway daughter: Report

By Brady Knox
Published July 9, 2021 7:44pm ET
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FBI helped UAE track down prime minister’s runaway daughter: Report
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, officials and journalists gather outside the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. Syria said the UAE will reopen its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, for the first time in seven years, a reflection of improved relations between President Bashar Assad and some of his Arab foes as the war winds down. | (SANA via AP)

The FBI reportedly helped the United Arab Emirates’s government track down runaway Princess Latifa.

The prime minister’s office contacted an FBI agent stationed in the U.S. Consulate in Dubai, claiming that the prime minister’s daughter, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al Maktoum, also known as Princess Latifa, had been kidnapped, and a ransom was being demanded sometime after her escape on Feb. 24, 2018, according to a USA Today report.

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