Sultan briefs Epstein on his Eritrea, Saudi and Ethiopia tour, six months before the arrest

On January 22, 2019, Epstein wrote to Sultan Bin Sulayem: "I am in Paris all week if you have some time." Sultan replied the next morning from Davos: "Have a crazy hectic schedule I leave davos tomorrow stay one night in Dubai fly to Eriteria then Jedda attending a DPW agreement signing in the presence of the crown prince Then fly to Uganda and Tanzania."

Each leg matters. The Eritrea stop paired with Berbera in Somaliland and Bosaso in Puntland that Sultan had been pitching Epstein for years. Jeddah is where the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had centralized state business in late 2018. Uganda and Tanzania extend the same East African corridor as the Mombasa logistics park Sultan briefed Epstein on in 2014.

Epstein replied with one line: "no worry, is davos fun?" By the evening Sultan was back with: "Amazing had a great meeting with Ethiopea PM." The Ethiopian prime minister at the time was Abiy Ahmed, in office nine months, who had just brokered the formal end of the Ethiopia-Eritrea war. Sultan's Eritrea-Ethiopia routing on a single tour was not coincidence.

This thread is dated six months and ten days before Epstein was arrested at Teterboro on July 6, 2019. The Miami Herald "Perversion of Justice" series had already been running for two months. Sultan was still using Epstein as the standing audience for his private royal-blessed African dealmaking.