The liquidity situation of Abraaj deteriorated to such a point that in a March 2018 email Mr Lakhani wrote to Mr Naqvi, Mr Abdel-Wadood and Mr Siddique 'we will be able to service the month only, if we borrow $16m from
APEV IV to cover $8m payable to [bank] and $8m for [a required] regulatory deposit,' according to the indictment.
"It can give hope to the families and justifies that they keep looking for children and fighting," said Alain Boulay, who founded France's
APEV association for parents of missing children in 1991, after the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Delphine.