Erik van Sabben (31 January 1972 - 16 January 2009)
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| Tracking # |
CBP-FO-2024-070821 |
| Submitted | March 6, 2024 |
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From: Matthew Petti
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Records mentioning or pertaining to the late Dutch businessman Erik van Sabben (31 January 1972 - 16 January 2009) including (but not limited to) any and all records of border crossing, travel, or secondary screening.
Van Sabben was the business development manager of Dubai's TTS International. A recent news report by Volkskrant (https://volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/aivd-speelde-cruciale-rol-bij-sabotage-kernprogramma-iran~ba24df9f/) named him as a Dutch intelligence asset.
Van Sabben's death was widely reported (https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/engineer-who-helped-build-the-maqta-bridge-1.553285). As such, privacy concerns under FOIA Exemptions 6 and 7 are voided, as are any concerns under the Privacy Act.
If any part of these documents are exempt from disclosure, please be sure to review and release all reasonably segregable nonexempt portions of responsive documents, as the FOIA requires.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Matthew Petti
From: United States Customs and Border Protection
Matthew Petti
N/A
MuckRock News DEPT MR 159957
263 Huntington Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
03/07/2024
CBP-FO-2024-070821
Dear Matthew Petti:
This notice acknowledges receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) received on 3/6/2024. Please use the following unique FOIA tracking number CBP-FO-2024-070821 to track the status of your request.
Provisions of the Act allow us to recover part of the cost of complying with your request. We shall charge you for records in accordance with the DHS FOIA regulations outlined on the DHS website, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/22/2016-28095/freedom-of-information-act-regulations. By submitting your request, you have agreed to pay up to $25.00 in applicable processing fees, if any fees associated with your request exceed this amount, CBP shall contact you; however, the first 100 pages are free.
Consistent with 6 C.F.R. Part 5 § 5.5(a) of the DHS FOIA regulations, CBP processes FOIA requests according to their order of receipt. Although CBP’s goal is to respond within 20 business days of receipt of your request, FOIA does permit a 10-day extension of this time period in certain circumstances pursuant to 6 C.F.R. Part 5 § 5.5(c). Please note that due to the increasing number of FOIA requests received by this office, and a current backlog, it may take 6-9 months to receive a response to your FOIA request. We are diligently working to process each request as quickly as possible, in the order they were received. We appreciate your patience during this time.
For additional information please consult CBP FOIA website please click on FOIA Act Resources or visit http://www.cbp.gov/site-policy-notices/foia.
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Sincerely,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 6, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #CBP-FO-2024-070821.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: United States Customs and Border Protection
06/05/2024
Request Number: CBP-FO-2024-070821
Dear Matthew Petti:
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From: United States Customs and Border Protection
Matthew Petti
MuckRock News DEPT MR 159957
263 Huntington Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
06/05/2024
CBP-FO-2024-070821
Dear Matthew Petti:
This is a final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for records mentioning or pertaining to the late Dutch businessman Erik van Sabben.
CBP is granting your request under the FOIA, Title 5 U.S.C. § 552. After carefully reviewing the responsive documents, CBP has determined that they are approved for release in their entirety, no deletions or exemptions have been applied.
For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist.
You may contact CBP's FOIA Public Liaison, Charlyse Hoskins, by sending an email via your SecureRelease account, mailing a letter to 90 K St, NE MS 1181, Washington DC, 20229 or by calling 202-325-0150. (If you need telecommunication relay service (TRS) assistance to communicate with the CBP FOIA Office and you are in the United States, please dial 711 to obtain TRS assistance and notify the Communications Assistant that you want to contact the CBP FOIA Office at the telephone number (202) 325-0150). The FOIA Public Liaison is able to assist in advising on the requirements for submitting a request, assist with narrowing the scope of a request, assist in reducing delays by advising the requester on the type of records to request, suggesting agency offices that may have responsive records and receive questions or concerns about the agency’s FOIA process. Please notate file number CBP-FO-2024-070821 on any future correspondence to CBP related to this request.
Please note that this message has been sent from an unmonitored e-mail account. Any messages sent to this account will not be read.
Sincerely,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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