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InfoSpan vs. Emirates Bank: $87M mobile‑payment venture ends in fraud trial with former White House counsel testifying

Date
November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #012042
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2
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2

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The passage provides concrete details—names (Farooq Bajwa, Larry Scudder, Kathryn Ruemmler, William A. Isaacson), entities (InfoSpan, Emirates Bank, UAE sovereign wealth fund), amounts ($87 million in InfoSpan claimed $87 M spent developing SpanCash, a text‑message remittance platform for Middle‑East Emirates Bank, owned by the UAE sovereign wealth fund, partnered in 2007 and cancelled the deal in

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