The star of White Men Can’t Jump and Demolition Man, Wesley Snipes, has been listed as a flight risk as prosecutors in Florida request that he be restricted from flying off to Europe to complete two movies in which he is currently contracted to appear.

Prosecutors say Snipes, 45, cannot be trusted as he went to the lavish “party of the decade” in Dubai for the opening of the Atlantis Hotel resort last November while free on bond as he appeals a tax fraud conviction. The courts have stated, “Defendant Snipes abused the Court’s trust, and did so in a very public way,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in its motion. “For that reason alone, the Court should deny his current request for international travel.”

The federal prosecutors also asked that Snipes’ bond be revoked pending the appeal due to his Dubai trip. Snipes had been allowed to fly out of the US only to London and Bangkok for work on the movies Gallowwalker and Chasing the Dragon but abused the right and continued on to Dubai.
Wesley‘s attorneys have stated, “It is essential that Mr. Snipes complete this project to satisfy his civil tax liabilities and provide for his family.”A jury convicted the action star last year of three counts of willfully failing to file his income taxes. Snipes is free on bond while he appeals the convictions and his three-year prison sentence to the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta.

In opposing Snipes’s travel requests, federal prosecutors also noted that Namibia “has become known as a haven for international fugitives”.

Snipes has also asked permission to go to Italy from May to August to film another movie, Game of Death.