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The UAE’s official campaign against human trafficking has entered its sixth year with the number of reported cases declining sharply.
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The Fujairah Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a lower court’s verdict sentencing an expatriate pharmacist to life imprisonment for selling narcotic pills.
A Filipino goldsmith was sentenced to six months in jail on Monday for stealing 30kg of gold in total worth Dh4 million from the jewellery shop he worked for.
DUBAI - A Lebanese visitor, 52, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday by the Court of First Instance for smuggling cocaine for trafficking. Four others, including a Lebanese national, two Emiratis and a French national, were sentenced to four years each in prison for using and possessing drugs.
For anybody, being called a thief in public could be nothing less than embarrassing. A 41-year-old Nigerian had more than that. He was slapped in front of people and was forcibly restrained by the manager and staff of a supermarket in Sharjah.
The Sharjah Police, on Tuesday, arrested a gang of five Pakistani men, allegedly for a number of burglaries in commercial outlets in the emirate. An official with the Sharjah Police said two of the gang members were arrested red-handed while trying to break into a money exchange in the Sharjah Industrial Area No. 11.
The Dubai Police have recovered two luxurious cars, which were stolen and smuggled out by a gang to a foreign country. Brig. Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation at the Dubai Police, said that the two cars, which cost about Dh600,000, are part of 56 cars stolen by the gang, including 20 from Dubai and 36 from a neighbouring emirate.
A British man, 33, has got his jail sentence for escaping from police custody in a hospital reduced from six to one month.
A woman accountant was sentenced to three months in jail by the Court of First Instance on Monday for swindling more than Dh305,000 from her employer after tampering with cheques he had given her for office expenses.
The General Department of Anti Narcotics of the Dubai Police have arrested 21 smugglers and seized 18kg of heroin. The suspects are members and agents of an international gang which has exploiting the poor to transport the drugs.