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DP World

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tagsentity, dubai, united-arab-emirates, ports, logistics, london-gateway
aliasesDP World Limited, DP World FZE, DPW, Dubai Ports World

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TypePorts and logistics group, head office P.O. Box 17000, Dubai, United Arab Emirates1
Scope of this pageDocuments in the released files written by, addressed to, or produced by DP World or its officers
Officers appearing in the recordSultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairman; Mohammed Sharaf, group chief executive officer; Anil Wats, chief operating officer123
Span of the correspondence cited hereMay 9, 2009 to June 8, 201845
Principal episodesThe London Gateway port and its United Kingdom financing, 2009 to 2013; an unnamed acquisition target the company called “project china,” May 2010; the Maritime Hall of Fame dinner of May 9, 2012; a Nigeria approach in June 20184615
Company documents in the releaseA letter signed and stamped over the group chief executive’s name; a 53-slide construction photograph deck; an unexecuted draft corporate guaranty naming the company as guarantor178

DP World is a ports and logistics group with its head office in Dubai, whose chairman1 and group chief executive officer both corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein about the company’s business. The released files carry a run of that correspondence from May 2009 to June 2018: the chairman, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, sending Epstein briefing material on the company’s London Gateway port, which Epstein forwarded to a British cabinet minister two days later; Epstein returning an edited draft of a letter the chairman was about to send that minister; the group chief executive, Mohammed Sharaf, approaching Epstein about “a possible project in infrastructure sector,” meeting him, and sending him a document the company said was covered by a non-disclosure agreement; a signed invitation on company letterhead to a New York dinner honouring the chairman; and, in 2018, the chairman writing that “Jeffrey introduced us” to an investor he was discussing Nigerian ports with.491061115 Three of the company’s own documents are in the release rather than merely described in it: the signed letter, a 53-slide construction photograph deck apparently attached to a message from the chairman, and an unexecuted draft corporate guaranty naming DP World as guarantor of a New York space licence to its chairman.178 No statement by DP World about Jeffrey Epstein is cited on this page.

Press items quoted in the correspondence describe the company as majority owned by the Dubai World conglomerate, and the chairman’s messages carry the Dubai World Group’s email disclaimer.1213 Correspondence about acts of the UAE state, rather than about this company, is treated on the November 5, 2010 Sir Bani Yas Forum page.

The search this page rests on

A search of the released files was run on the terms DP World, DPW, dpworld, DP World FZE, London Gateway, Jebel Ali, Sultan Bin Sulayem, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Mohammed Sharaf and Anil Wats. The phrase DP World alone returns several hundred pages. Most are press clippings, market coverage and boilerplate that record nothing the company did. The documents described below are those written by, sent to, or produced by the company or its named officers. A reader can repeat the search on the same terms.

Several of the messages cited here exist in the release under more than one production number. Where that is so, one copy is cited and the footnote says so.

London Gateway, 2009 to 2013

The brief and the forward to a cabinet minister, May 2009

On May 9, 2009 the chairman sent Epstein what he called “a short brief on our port in London.” It is a bullet list arguing the case for the company’s London Gateway container port and logistics park: “UK’ largest inward investment infrastructure project £1.8 billion,” “44,000 sustainable jobs including 6,000 construction jobs in the short to medium term,” “100% commercial risk rests with DP World,” and, last, “The Project is now on hold.” Under a heading “Solution” it asks for public money: “DP World still committed to investing £168 million into off-site infrastructure that will connect to national infrastructure. We would like UK Government support to fund this immediate of site infrastructure.”4

Two days later Epstein forwarded the brief to Peter Mandelson, then Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, at an address the released copy blacks out. No document cited here records the chairman, or anyone else, asking him to. A correspondent whose sender field is blacked out replied to Epstein the same day: “I will call and talk to him (and Hody..)”. No name is taken from the sender field.4

The chairman sent the same brief again on July 30, 2009, over the line “Just to refresh your mind on our project in London,” with one bullet added that was not in the May version: “Since banks are not very optimistic on UK economy UK Govt to support/Guarantee the debt.”14 Epstein forwarded that copy on to David Stern on August 3.15

On August 11, 2009 the chairman sent Epstein a list of the project’s British companies: “The following are 100% UK chartered companies and UK registered for london Gateway,” naming London Gateway Limited, London Gateway Park Development Limited, London Gateway Park Limited, London Gateway Park Management Limited, London Gateway Port Limited and London Gateway Services Limited, and adding “But there are others under DP World FZE : registered in Guernsey,” continuing the list with LG Park Freehold Limited, LG Park Leasehold Limited and ten further LG Park HT entities numbered 1 to 10.16

On August 25, 2009 the chairman wrote a message opening “Lord Mandelson , we met in Dubai During your visit to UAE. I would appreciate it if we could set a meeting date to meet you and Lord Marvin Davis in London on a date convenient to you”. The name of the second peer is printed as shown and is not corrected here. The copy cited blacks out the addressee field, and no address is reproduced from any copy.17

The letter to Lord Mandelson, and Epstein’s edits, November 2009

At 11:52 UTC on November 5, 2009 the chairman sent Epstein the text of a letter to Lord Mandelson over his own name, above the line “I am sending this to Peter in the next 20 mnts.” The letter tied the project to a state visit: “You will be aware of the imminent state visit of H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum (Prime Minister and Vice President UAE, Ruler of Dubai) to the UK on 23 November, where he will meet with Prime Minister Rt. Hon Gordon Brown.” It set out the terms on which the company would announce that the port was proceeding: European Investment Bank funding of at least €300 million plus a mezzanine facility, and a British government guarantee, or “wrap,” of the commercial funding. It is signed “Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman, DP World.”3

Fifteen minutes later, at 12:07 UTC, Epstein sent back a message headed “SMALL EDITS” carrying a revised text of the same letter. The addressee field is blacked out in the copies in the release; the message quotes the chairman’s message beneath it. The revisions are substantive. Where the chairman had written that the announcement was of “the UK’s biggest inward investment,” Epstein’s version drops the phrase and adds a purpose for the minister, so that the announcement becomes “an excellent opportunity, to publicize your commitment to employment.” Where the chairman set out the banks’ positions and left the conclusion implicit, Epstein’s version adds a flat sentence: “These levels are insufficient.” “DP World has worked with great endeavour” becomes “has worked diligently”; “with DP World proposing to inject some £445 million of equity” becomes “with DP World agreeing to inject £445 million of equity”; and the conditional request that “The UK Government is able to guarantee (wrap) the commercial funding” becomes the flat “The UK Government will guarantee (wrap) the commercial funding.” Two pages further into the same document, the chairman’s original letter is quoted beneath the revision in full, printing “the UK’s biggest inward investment,” “great endeavour,” “proposing to inject some £445 million” and “is able to guarantee (wrap).” Each of the changes above can be checked directly against that page.9

At 18:59 the same day the chairman’s personal assistant sent a letter to Lord Mandelson to two addresses at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, writing “Please find attached the Letter to The Rt Hon Lord Mandelson from Mr. Sultan Bin Sulayem, Chairman of DP World,” with the letter as a PDF attachment. That attachment is not extractable from the release, so which of the two texts was sent is not established here.18 On November 9 the chairman forwarded that transmission to Epstein, who replied: “This is his government email - sultan, send it to his personal email,, do not give it to anyone else”. The address that follows in the message is blacked out.1819

On November 17, 2009 the chairman forwarded Epstein a letter sent to Lord Adonis by Robbie Owen, a partner at the solicitors Bircham Dyson Bell, “on behalf of London Gateway Port Limited (LGPL).” Owen’s covering message says the letter “requests consents from you related to LGPL and its associated companies in the DP World group currently seeking to raise approximately £600 million of debt finance to allow construction of the first phase of the works necessary for the Port to start.”20

The opening, August 2013

On the evening of August 19, 2013, under a header of 00:05 UTC on August 20, the chairman wrote to Epstein under the subject “London gateway port is getting ready to open this October,” attaching a file named 130818_Construction_Photos_Update.pptx: “I am holding a big opening for the port with the presence of sheikh Mohammed and possibly the queen and Cameron look at these pictures London gateway port our investment of £1.5 billion which is considered the largest project in europe now is getting ready to open this October as you see from the Construction Photos Update Should I invite Peter Mandelson ?”21

The 53-slide deck itself is in the release. Its title slide reads “Construction Photos Update / 18 August 2013” over “Welcome to London Gateway / UK’s new deep sea port and Europe’s largest logistics park,” and the slides that follow are captioned photographs of berths, cranes, the gatehouse, road junctions and rail sidings.7

Epstein answered: “invite prince andrew.. i will organize if you want. also . can we organzie for joi ito to be met in dubai on sept 2”. The chairman replied “Of course I just need his flight details and my people will meet him at airport and will go to with him to his appointment”; Joi Ito wrote to Epstein later that evening, “Thanks Jeffrey. I sent the flight info.”22 Epstein then wrote “cameron despises peter, careful,”. The chairman sent two further messages a minute apart: “Ok better I take Peter on. Private visit”23 and “Prince Andrew told he will attend.”24 Whether either man attended the opening is not recorded in any document cited on this page, and no statement by the Duke of York about the exchange is cited here. See Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

”Project china” and the London listing, 2010

On May 16, 2010 the chairman sent Epstein the company’s most recent investor presentation, “As discussed, below is a link to the most recent investor presentation on our website. I attach it as a PDF for your convenience,” and added that the group chief executive would be in Washington on May 27 and “could fly to Miami after that.”25

On May 20 Sharaf wrote to Epstein directly. “I am Mohammed Sharaf the CEO of DP World. I believe our Chairman Mr Sultan Bin Sulayem has spoken to you about a possible project in infrastructure sector which you maybe interested in.” He set out his American itinerary and asked for a time to meet. Epstein answered within minutes, “at your convenience in miami .. look forward to it,” and Sharaf replied, “That was real quick.” and, “I shall send you my arrival time on Saturday if that is ok with you.”1026

Epstein asked the chairman on May 25 to “have your people do a full report for me on project china,” and the chairman instructed Sharaf: “Mohammed please compile a report on project china for Jeffrey as background info size of company , EBTDA, assets and which country ,any partners with them etc.” Sharaf sent a document on May 26 with a covering note: “Please find attached herewith a document for our upcoming meeting on Saturday 29th May. We are under an NDA and would appreciate if you treat it as PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL.” Asked the next day whether there was any financial analysis, he answered that the company had none because “The target is not aware of our plan,and they do not publish their financial. What ever we have is through our own intelligence.” The target is identified in the correspondence only as a listed group in Hong Kong.6

The two men met on Saturday May 29, 2010; no document cited here records where. Sharaf wrote the same day: “It was a pleasure meeting you today. I believe we had a good and open discussion over the seed idea that we have.” He described the acquisition as unripe, “project China is just conceived and needs a lots work to make it to reality,” recorded Epstein’s view that it “looks sexy,” asked that “we continue the dialogue between us before any approach is made to the target,” and added a second subject: “We also discussed DP World’s listing in LSE. I really appreciate your advise and I will initiate some work the idea.” The spelling and punctuation are as printed.11 On June 15 Sharaf sent Epstein a share price and volume analysis “Reference to our discussion during my visit.”27

No document cited on this page records what became of either the acquisition or the London listing.

The Maritime Hall of Fame dinner, 2012

Late on January 25, 2012 the chairman forwarded Epstein a message from Anil Wats, the company’s chief operating officer, enclosing a letter from the Maritime Association of the Port of New York & New Jersey confirming that its board would honour the chairman at the 19th Annual International Maritime Hall of Fame on May 9, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt New York. The chairman added: “Will you be able to attend and can you suggest me names of others I can invite to sit at my table”. Epstein replied twenty minutes later, “of course”.2

On March 27 the company’s global brand and corporate marketing manager, writing from Corporate Communications at DP World’s head office, sent Epstein a further invitation: “It would be a pleasure if you can join the management on the occasion at dinner that evening. Official invitation and details will be sent to you closer to the date. Kindly reconfirm to ensure your seat is reserved.” Epstein answered the same day: “pleaes check with me next week,, I an currently scheduled , to be in europe that date.”2829

The formal invitation followed on April 3, 2012: a letter on DP World letterhead headed “Office of the C.E.O.,” addressed to “Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, 9 East, 71 Street, New York,” signed in ink over the name block “Mohammed Sharaf / Group Chief Executive Officer / DP World” and struck with the company’s stamp. It encloses the invitation and says: “It would be our pleasure if you could take the time to join us at the reception and dinner held in his honour as guests of DP World.”1

On the day of the dinner, May 9, 2012, Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff sent him directions: “The event for Sultan tonight is in the Manhatten Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt. The best door for you to enter through is the door located on 42nd Street between Lex and Park.”30 No document cited here records whether he attended.

Company news sent to Epstein, 2009 to 2018

Across the whole period the chairman sent Epstein DP World corporate material directly, rather than Epstein collecting it. The pattern includes the company’s own media releases and results announcements and press coverage of them: a compiled media monitor on the opening of the DP World Callao terminal in Peru in October 2010; expansion clippings on Jebel Ali in December 2011; a compilation headed “MEDIA MONITOR-2: H1 RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT” sent on the day the 2012 half-year figures were published, under the subject line “DP World defies economic gloom”; a video of the company’s memorandum of understanding signing with Hyperloop One in August 2016; the company’s media release of December 2, 2016 announcing a US$3.7 billion investment platform with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec; and a link to coverage of the 2017 annual results in March 2018.123132333435

The unexecuted corporate guaranty

An undated draft in the release is headed “CORPORATE GUARANTY” and begins: “THIS CORPORATE GUARANTY (the ‘Guaranty’) is made as of the ___ day of ________, 20 by DP World, having a business address at ______________________, (the ‘Guarantor’).” It recites that a company called Miracle NY Properties is entering into a “Temporary Space License Agreement” with Sultan Bin Sulayem for temporary use of a space in New York whose address is blacked out, and that Miracle requires DP World to guarantee his performance under it. The instrument is not executed: the date, the company’s address and the space’s address are blank or redacted, the text carries a marked insertion in paragraph 3, and the signature line under “GUARANTOR:” is empty. A second copy in the release is identical.8

Other approaches, 2016 to 2018

On December 3, 2016 Epstein sent Kenneth E. Mapp, then Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, a link to coverage of the DP World and CDPQ platform. The governor replied on December 5: “Quite interesting. What would it take to spur their investment interest in the USVI?” No answer to that question is cited here.36

On July 15, 2017 a correspondent asked Epstein “Is Sultan still the boss of DP world? I hear they want to take over Necotrans (logistics company owning ports in Africa)? The CEO of Necotrans is a good friend of mine.” Epstein answered “yes,” and, to a follow-up, “I’ll ask.”37

On June 5, 2018 at 8:39 a.m. the chairman opened a correspondence with the investor Jide Zeitlin about Nigerian ports, copied to Epstein, beginning “Dear Jide Jeffrey introduced us a while ago We are very interested in Nigeria.” A later message the same day, at 1:31 p.m., adds Suhail Albanna and John Woollacott to the distribution; no document cited here gives either man a role at the company. Asked to meet before producing a proposal, the chairman set out the company’s Nigerian history, listing visits “from 2005 till 2018” and meetings with two former presidents, the Lagos governor and the transport minister, declined an offer to build an industrial park at Lekki, and wrote: “At Dpworld I made a decision that unless we get what a compelling offer we stay away from Nigeria until such a time.” He offered to sign a non-disclosure agreement to see a proposal.5

An undated note

A single page in the release, bearing no letterhead, is titled “Notes on Opportunities Dubai, UAE” and dated only “June 11-13.” The page bears no year, no author and no addressee, and no covering message for it was found on the searches described above; its date cannot be established from it. It lists Dubai property ventures and then, under “Non Real Estate,” three items, of which the first is “GMR with DP World.” That line is the whole of the document’s reference to the company.38

Response

No statement by DP World, by any DP World officer, or by the Dubai World group about Jeffrey Epstein or about the correspondence described here is cited on this page, and the searches set out above returned none in the released files.

November 5, 2010 Sir Bani Yas Forum; International Peace Institute; Terje Rød-Larsen; Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor; Lesley Groff; Tom Pritzker; Financial Trust Company.

Footnotes

  1. Letter from Mohammed Sharaf, Group Chief Executive Officer, DP World, to Jeffrey Epstein, April 3, 2012, on “Office of the C.E.O.” letterhead, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01147805 p.1. The signature is in ink and the page carries the company’s stamp. Three further copies of the same letter and its enclosure are in the release. No telephone or facsimile number printed on the letterhead is reproduced here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. Jeffrey Epstein to Sultan Bin Sulayem, January 26, 2012, header dated 03:12 UTC, carrying the chairman’s message quoted inline at 9:52 p.m. on January 25, Anil Wats’s message as chief operating officer, and the Maritime Association’s letter of January 25, 2012, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00928301 p.1. Every address field is blacked out and the name in the letter’s own sender field is not taken. The 9:52 p.m. stamp is the quoting client’s own local rendering of the chairman’s message, not a header in its own right; it is not in the same frame as Epstein’s 03:12 UTC header, and the twenty-minute interval given in the text holds only once both are read against the same frame. ↩ ↩2

  3. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, November 5, 2009, header dated 11:52 UTC, carrying the text of a letter to Lord Mandelson dated 5 November 2009, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02434777 pp.1–2. The same message is in the release under a second production number, whose header prints the offset outright, “+0000,” which is the basis for reading it as UTC. The department’s postal address printed in the letter is not reproduced here. ↩ ↩2

  4. “Re: Fwd:,” May 11, 2009, carrying Jeffrey Epstein’s forward of the same day to Peter Mandelson and, beneath it, Sultan Bin Sulayem’s message to Epstein of May 9, 2009, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00774719 pp.1–2. The sender field of the May 11 reply is a solid redaction box and no name is taken from it; the address in Epstein’s “To” line is blacked out and is not reproduced. The document’s own spellings, including “21sy Century,” are as printed, and the figure printed as ”£ 144” carries no unit on the page and is not completed here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. “RE: Nigeria,” June 8, 2018, carrying Sultan Bin Sulayem’s opening message of June 5, 2018, 8:39 a.m., to Jide Zeitlin and Jeffrey Epstein, his later message the same day, 1:31 p.m., which adds Suhail Albanna and John Woollacott to the distribution, and Zeitlin’s replies, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01038627 pp.1–3. Every address field is blacked out. Remarks in the same chain on subjects unrelated to the company are not cited here. Copies of this chain in another production carry transmission damage in the print itself; the copy cited does not. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. “Re: Project china,” May 26 and 27, 2010, Mohammed Sharaf and Jeffrey Epstein, copied to Sultan Bin Sulayem, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00734813 pp.1–3. The chairman’s instruction and Epstein’s request of May 25 are quoted back within the chain. The document’s own “EBTDA” is as printed. The attachments named in the header are not in the release as extractable text, and the target is not named anywhere in the chain. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. “DP WORLD London Gateway: Construction Photos Update, 18 August 2013,” 53 slides, read from the page image of the title slide. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01074083 p.1. The title and the date are legible only in the image. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Undated draft “CORPORATE GUARANTY,” read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01092667 pp.1, 3. The address of the licensed space is a solid redaction box in the recital and is not completed here. The machine text renders the defined term for Sultan Bin Sulayem as “Sutavern”; the image prints “Sulayem.” A second copy of the identical draft is in the release. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. Jeffrey Epstein, “SMALL EDITS,” November 5, 2009, header dated 12:07 UTC, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01819537 pp.1–4. The addressee field is a solid redaction box and no name is supplied for it; the message quotes the chairman’s 11:52 message beneath the revised text, and the two headers give the interval. The gap after “the UK’s” in the revised first paragraph is in the image. Pages 3–4 of the same run carry the chairman’s original letter quoted beneath the revision in full. Page 2 quotes the chairman’s message inline as sent “at 6:52 AM,” which is the quoting client’s own local rendering, five hours behind the 11:52 a.m. header; two further copies in the release print the same headers with the offset shown outright, “+0000,” which together are the basis for reading both headers as UTC. The same message is in the release under three further production numbers. ↩ ↩2

  10. Mohammed Sharaf to Jeffrey Epstein, May 20, 2010, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02424351 p.1. The copy in the machine text renders the sender’s surname as “Shand”; the image prints “Sharaf.” No telephone number is reproduced here from this or any copy of the message. ↩ ↩2

  11. Mohammed Sharaf to Jeffrey Epstein, “Thank You,” May 29, 2010, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00754034 p.1. The copy field and the telephone and facsimile lines are blacked out. The spellings “a lots work,” “advise” and “some work the idea” are as printed. ↩ ↩2

  12. “Fwd: DP World Callao Media Monitor,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, October 2, 2010. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00755235 pp.1–6. The press items compiled in it are cited here only as press. ↩ ↩2

  13. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, October 25, 2010, read from the page image, which carries the Dubai World Group’s email disclaimer. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00753332 p.1. The subject of that exchange is treated on the November 5, 2010 Sir Bani Yas Forum page. ↩

  14. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, July 30, 2009, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02440591 p.1. ↩

  15. Jeffrey Epstein to David Stern, August 3, 2009, forwarding the message of July 30. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00883642 pp.1–2. The same message is in the release under a second production number. ↩

  16. Sultan Bin Sulayem, August 11, 2009, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00773567 p.1. The message opens “Dear Jeffrey”; the To field is a solid redaction box and no name or address is taken from it, the identification of the recipient resting on the salutation. ↩

  17. Sultan Bin Sulayem, August 25, 2009, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02441654 p.1. The addressee field is blacked out in the copy cited. Nothing else on this page is cited here. The stray quotation mark after “convenient to you” and the spelling of the second peer’s name are as printed. ↩

  18. “Fwd: Letter to The Rt Hon Lord Mandelson,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, November 9, 2009, carrying the message of November 5 from the chairman’s personal assistant to two departmental addresses, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00768541 p.1. The attachment named in the header, read from the image as “Ltr_to_Lord_Mandelson.pdf”, is not in the release as extractable text. Nothing else on this page is cited here. ↩ ↩2

  19. Jeffrey Epstein to Sultan Bin Sulayem, November 9, 2009, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00741826 p.1. The doubled comma is as printed. The address that follows the quoted sentence is blacked out and is not reproduced. ↩

  20. “Fwd: London Gateway Port,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, November 17, 2009, carrying Robbie Owen’s message of the same day to Lord Adonis. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00776037 p.1. The attached letter is not in the release as extractable text. ↩

  21. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, “London gateway port is getting ready to open this October,” header dated August 20, 2013 00:05 UTC, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00968032 p.1. The reply chain renders the same message as “Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM,” which is the quoting client’s own local rendering, not the writer’s clock; the date given in the text follows that local stamp for the evening of August 19. The attachment name is read from the image, where it carries underscores that the machine text converts to a space. ↩

  22. Joi Ito to Jeffrey Epstein, August 20, 2013 02:11 UTC, the writer’s evening of August 19 in the United States. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01964576 p.1. Nothing else in the message is cited here. ↩

  23. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, “Re: London gateway port is getting ready to open this October,” header dated August 20, 2013 1:54:24 AM, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01964426 p.1. The sender’s address is blacked out. ↩

  24. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, “Re: London gateway port is getting ready to open this October,” header dated August 20, 2013 1:55:05 AM, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01964518 p.1. The sender’s address is blacked out. The spellings “organzie” and “cameron despises peter” are as printed, quoted within the chain beneath the message cited. The chairman’s “Of course I just need his flight details” answers the second half of Epstein’s message. ↩

  25. “Fwd: DP World investor road show,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, copied to Mohammed Sharaf, May 16, 2010, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00757298 p.1. Nothing else on this page is cited here. ↩

  26. Jeffrey Epstein’s reply of May 20, 2010 and Mohammed Sharaf’s answer of the same evening, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02415224 p.1. Nothing else on this page is cited here. ↩

  27. Mohammed Sharaf to Jeffrey Epstein, “DP World - Share Price Vs Volumes,” June 15, 2010, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00748012 p.1. The attachment is not in the release as extractable text; no number printed in the signature block is reproduced here. ↩

  28. Message from DP World’s global brand and corporate marketing manager, Corporate Communications, head office, to Jeffrey Epstein, March 27, 2012, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02010770 p.1. The telephone lines in the signature block are covered; nothing is taken from them. ↩

  29. Jeffrey Epstein’s reply of March 27, 2012, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00931935 p.1. The doubled comma and “I an” are as printed. ↩

  30. Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein, May 9, 2012, header dated 18:35 UTC, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02035303 p.1. “Manhatten” is as printed. Nothing else on this page is cited here. ↩

  31. “Fwd: Expansion clippings,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, December 6, 2011. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00924596 pp.1–5. ↩

  32. “DP World defies economic gloom,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, August 29, 2012, attaching a media monitor of the half-year results announcement, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00713293 pp.1–5. The attachment name is read from the image, where it carries underscores that the machine text converts to spaces. The press items compiled in it are cited here only as press. ↩

  33. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, “Hyperloop One MOU Signing With DP World,” August 17, 2016. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02454726 p.1. The message is a link and a signature; nothing about the memorandum’s terms is taken from it. ↩

  34. “Media Release: DP World Partners with CDPQ to Create US$ 3.7 Billion Investment Platform,” Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, header dated December 3, 2016 01:14 UTC, carrying a DP World Corporate Communications release dated 2 December 2016, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01059915 pp.1–2. Two lines at the head of the message are blacked out. ↩

  35. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein, March 15, 2018. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02501851 p.1. The message is a headline and a link. ↩

  36. Governor Kenneth E. Mapp to Jeffrey Epstein, December 5, 2016, carrying Epstein’s message of December 3, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01060017 p.1. The governor’s address is blacked out. Nothing else on this page is cited here. ↩

  37. Exchange of July 15, 2017 between Jeffrey Epstein and a correspondent whose address is blacked out. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01040262 pp.1–2. The correspondent’s messages are quoted; nothing about the friendship he asserts is adopted here. ↩

  38. “Notes on Opportunities Dubai, UAE,” undated, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00728399 p.1. The page carries the line “June 11-13” and no year, and no other date appears on it. ↩

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