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In documents filed on September 11 by Elizabeth Seif of the law firm Seif & Austin in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky., Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum and unnamed others are accused of "obtaining boys through abduction, false inducement, or agreement" from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania, and Sudan. "These boys would then be trafficked across international borders by traffickers and smugglers posing as the boys' parents," the documents say. "Once these individuals arrived in the United Arab Emirates (