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[i]Takafumie Horie, whose Internet portal company Livedoor made him a billionaire, sued Art Dula in Harris County Court on Monday. ..."Horie engaged Dula as his attorney, and then trusted him enough to give Dula $49,003,000.00 in trust for purposes of setting up a business to accomplish space travel," the complaint states. Horie claims Dula reeled him in by claiming "he could set up a commercial space transportation program to carry cargo, scientific experiments, and people into low Earth orbit to the International Space Station and other space destinations." Dula bought four space capsules and two space stations with Horie's money from NPO Mashinostroyenia, a Russian aerospace firm, Horie claims in the lawsuit. But he says there was a major problem with the Russian equipment. Dula "represented to plaintiff and others that the hardware could be made 'flight worthy,' and that he could refurbish, modify and update the equipment so that it would be certified for flight," the complaint states. It continues: "The purchase contracts had to be approved by the Russian government, and unbeknownst to plaintiff ... expressly excluded the right to modify the Russian hardware, thus relegating it to display uses only! The items were only museum pieces, a secret Dula would keep until well after he acquired control of plaintiff's investment."[/i]
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