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Blackwater founder moves to Abu Dhabi, court papers say Erik Prince, whose security company once known as Blackwater has spawned a series of criminal and civil court cases, has left the United States and moved with his family to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Prince does not face any criminal charges. But five former executives of the Moyock, N.C.-based company now known as Xe Services have been indicted on federal firearms charges, and two former Blackwater contractors are on trial in Norfolk for the alleged murders of two civilians in Afghanistan. Prince's company also faces several civil lawsuits, including one brought by two former employees in federal court in Alexandria alleging that the company has defrauded the U.S. government. In a declaration filed in that case this month, Prince said he was relocating with his family to Abu Dhabi last week so that his children could begin school there Sunday. Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Alexandria case had sought to obtain a deposition from Prince before he left the country, speculating that he might not return to the United States "if he is indicted on weapons smuggling charges or other matters." Prince's attorneys responded: "There is no basis for such speculation." The judge in the case has ordered Prince to appear for the deposition Monday in Abu Dhabi. Xe has earned more than $1 billion doing security work for the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prince put the company up for sale in June. A Xe spokeswoman had no comment on Prince's move. Bill Sizemore, (757) 446-2276, [email protected] _____ Source URL (retrieved on 08/19/2010 - 09:40): <http://hamptonroads.com/2010/08/blackwater-founder-moves-abu-dhabi-court-pa pers-say> http://hamptonroads.com/2010/08/blackwater-founder-moves-abu-dhabi-court-pap ers-say [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
