mobanmarketDubai: A bootlegger was sentenced to one year in prison to be followed by deportation for offering a bribe of Dh30,000 and a promise of Dh50,000 as “monthly salary” to a policeman, a court ruled on Thursday. Dubai Court of First Instance also ordered a Dh80,000 fine to be paid by the defendant.
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Official records said the 45-year-old Indian defendant used to inform Dubai Police about the location of bootleggers in the Al Muhaisnah area.
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In December 2018, the defendant called a 32-year-old Emirati police officer who works in the Criminal Investigation Department at Dubai Police and offered him money to stop the raids.
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“He offered to pay [a] Dh30,000 bribe if I agreed not to conduct the raids in Muhaisnah or at least alert him before we raided the area. I told him that I needed time to think and he promised a Dh50,000 monthly salary for me,” the Emirati policeman said.
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The officer informed his director who asked him to set a trap for the defendant and arrest him.
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He then went to Al Nahda and met the Indian defendant who handed him Dh30,000.
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“The bribery was to let him work freely in the area,” the officer added.
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The police arrested the defendant as soon as the money was handed over to the officer.
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Prosecutors said that the defendant confessed to offering the bribe, but denied being a bootlegger. He told prosecutors that he was working for another Indian bootlegger who gave him the money for the bribe.
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“I used to cooperate with the officer for three years in providing him with information about bootleggers’ whereabouts. A bootlegger asked me to contact the policeman to offer bribe in order not to arrest his men,” the defendant said on record.
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Dubai Court of First Instance ordered a Dh80,000 fine to be paid by the defendant.
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