On the evening of January 25, 2011, French diplomat Fabrice Aidan sent Jeffrey Epstein an urgent message from his official United Nations email address about a planned dinner. He said that Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, had accepted a dinner with Bill Gates and that a phone number was urgently needed for protocol coordination. The invitation had been arranged within Epstein’s circle, with Aidan acting as an intermediary from an official UN mailbox.
Shortly afterward, Mohamed Mahmoud Al Khaja, the foreign minister’s personal assistant, contacted Boris Nikolic, then Bill Gates’s chief science and technology adviser, and requested prompt confirmation of the time, location, and dress code. In internal communication, Nikolic appeared unprepared, forwarded the message, and said he first needed more information before formally inviting the guest. Epstein replied that same night, describing Sheikh Abdullah as the crown prince’s brother as well as the foreign minister; he also pointed to the roughly one trillion U.S. dollars in assets controlled by the ruling family and to Abdullah’s interest in nuclear energy for his country.
The planned dinner did not take place. The next morning, Nikolic asked the foreign minister’s assistant to stop the preparations and instead proposed a personal meeting with Sheikh Abdullah as an alternative. After the cancellation was confirmed, Epstein responded to Aidan with the brief message, “sorry, no good deed.”
Three months later, in February 2011, Epstein and senior JPMorgan executives launched “Project Molecule,” described as a concept for a permanent, offshore-capable donor-advised fund tied to the Gates name and intended to attract capital from Giving Pledge signatories. The emails’ documented contacts with UAE leadership circles are presented in this context as a precursor to a later Gulf dimension of that architecture, while Gates, according to the correspondence, was still in the UAE at the time and was unable to move as planned due to logistical delays.
Source: Sayer Ji