Dubai-based logistics company DP World on Friday announced the appointment of His Excellency Essa Kazim as chairman of its Board of Directors and Yuvraj Narayan as Group Chief Executive Officer, replacing Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem following disclosures in recently released US court documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement issued by the Dubai media office, the company confirmed the changes but did not mention bin Sulayem by name.

Bin Sulayem had been serving as group chairman and chief executive officer of DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators. His name appears more than 9,400 times in documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files.

The documents indicate that bin Sulayem and Epstein maintained correspondence between 2009 and 2018. The exchanges reportedly covered meetings, introductions and business matters. The material also suggests that bin Sulayem visited Epstein at his residence in the United States on multiple occasions, including at his private island.

Separately, two US lawmakers referenced bin Sulayem in connection with an email mentioned in the unredacted Epstein documents.

Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said that they reviewed unredacted records and shared details of a 2009 email exchange between Epstein and a sender whose name had been blacked out in public versions of the files. The email referred to a “torture video.”

Khanna later addressed the US House floor and read out six names he said had been redacted in the publicly released documents, including bin Sulayem’s. Massie also posted on social media platform X, stating that the Department of Justice had redacted information identifying the sender of the email and that he and Khanna had disclosed the name earlier in the week.

Massie further referenced bin Sulayem’s departure in his post, linking it to the disclosure of the email.

DP World’s statement announcing the appointments did not address the lawmakers’ claims or the content of the documents.