A former spy who claims he was threatened with execution for trying to help a Dubai princess flee to America in a daring sea rescue has opened up for the first time about his terrifying ordeal.
Jean-Pierre Hervé Jaubert, 62, said he was beaten, blindfolded and interrogated for hours under the threat of death after being seized by soldiers acting on the orders of the billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
He had allegedly ordered his forces to swoop on Jaubert’s yacht after discovering the ex-counter intelligence officer had helped Princess Latifa Maktoum, 33,…
