UAE Citizen, Wife Sentenced to Prison For 66 Years

A citizen, his wife and 16 other defendants of different nationalities have been convicted in 12 cases for harming public funds, forgery, bribery, profiteering, appropriation, commercial fraud, and disrupting a public facility.

The Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation sentenced the first defendant and his wife to prison for 66 years and fined them Dh39 million.

The court also sentenced the other defendants to prison. The range of their sentence was between three and 15 years. They have also been fined a total of Dh13 million.

The ruling came after the Public prosecution referred the defendants for establishing private warehouses, storing expired food and other consumer materials and re-selling them by illegally amending the expiration dates on those products.

Aside from this, the accused also committed various other crimes which led to the harsh sentencing.

Khaleez Times