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Interpol issued a red notice for Isabel dos Santos, who is holed up in Dubai. The president of Interpol is Emirati ... but the UAE won't extradite her. Strange?
With a lax attitude to shell companies and regulation as well as its lack of extradition treaties, the UAE became home to the big drug lords, those known as the “super cartel.”
Flying cars. Robot maids. Glow in the dark sand. Billions of trees planted in a country surrounded by desert. NEOM aspires to be the “safest, most efficient, most future-oriented, and best place to live and work” in the kingdom.
