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Rippling’sefforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouazizhave been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai , according to internal correspondence envision by TechCrunch .
The UAE is a country with a repute of being a good haven for those wanting to avoid extradition .
Rippling is trying to serve Bouaziz as part of itsblockbuster suit in Ireland against Deel . But French bailiff weren’table to find Bouazizat an apartment in Paris in his aboriginal France last week .
The case impeach Bouaziz of bribing a Rippling employee in Ireland , Keith O’Brien , and the affidavitfrom the supposed “ undercover agent ” read like it ’s out of a movie .
And Bouaziz is n’t the only one in the UAE . Deel ’s legal manager Asif Malik has moved to Dubai , Rippling ’s sound team said in a courthearinglast hebdomad . Malik is a U.K. citizen who Rippling is also trying to dish out . He ’s the same lawyer who allegedly offered to relocate O’Brien , Deel ’s alleged spy , to Dubai and pay his sound cost in exchange for refuse to collaborate with Rippling , according to O’Brien’saffidavit .
The UAE ’s effectual environs makes things like extraditing citizenry very hard allot toEuropean authorities , although the Gulf area has tell media that it ’s committed to solve with international partners on law enforcement and recentlystepped up extraditionsof some long - wanted criminals .
Bouaziz ’s Father-God , the CFO of Deel , who O’Brien take oversaw payments to him and knew of the schema , presently listshis placement as the UAE on X , too .
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Deel , along with Alex and Philippe Bouaziz , did n’t reply to requests for gossip . Deelhas respondedto Rippling ’s lawsuit denying all wrongful conduct . ripple did n’t respond to a request for comment .
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