Herve Jaubert

Herve Jaubert is a submarine builder, former French Naval Officer and Marine Engineer.

He served as a covert operative for the French Counter-espionage at the DGSE, the French Secret Service.

In 1993 he left the DGSE and moved to the US where he invented and developed a complete line of recreational submarines and combat frogman submersibles.

In 2004, Sultan Bin Sulayem, the Chairman of Government owned and now endebted Dubai World, visited Herve's submarine factory in Florida and offered him a partnership to build and develop submarine manufacturing company in Dubai.

Herve Jaubert moved to Dubai, transported his operation and created a state of the art factory. Soon, he fell victim to a corrupt system and megalomaniac leaders who seized his passport, held him hostage, coerced him to surrender his assets and threatened him to be tortured and imprisoned indefinitely.

With no chance to survive this corrupt justice system, Herve Jaubert went into hiding and dressed like an Emirati woman to plan an escape of the country without his passport.

In 2008, he executed a harrowing escape on a rubber dinghy. Once in high seas he waited for a friend at a rendez vous to pick him up with the sailboat Herve had purchased earlier from the brother of the President of the UAE under a phony identity, then sailed to India and he returned to the U.S and published his story.

In 2010, Princes Latifa, the 33 years old daughter of the ruler of Dubai, read Herve Jaubert 's book and contacted him. She asked him to help her escape from Dubai. For 7 years, they prepared her escape in total secrecy. In February 2018, Latifa Escaped from Dubai and boarded Herve Jaubert 's U.S yacht. Her father launched an unprecedented military coalition to hunt and capture Latifa and Herve.

On March 4, 2018, commandos stormed Herve Jaubert 's yacht in international waters and kidnapped Latifa, Herve Jaubert and his crew.