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An appeal court on Monday acquitted two sailors who were accused of smuggling and possessing 41 Kg of drugs hidden inside dhow’s fuel tanks in Dubai.
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The two Iranian sailors who were sentenced to ten years by Dubai Court of First Instance earlier this year, found innocent by Dubai Court of Appeal.
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However, the court upheld the ten years in jail verdict against the third defendant [Shipmaster]
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The three Iranian sailors aged between 30 to 38, were charged with possessing and smuggling 41 kg of hashish, opium, heroin, marijuana and 9228 pills of illegal pain killers.
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In November last year, Dubai Customs at Deira port suspected the dhow and alerted Dubai police.
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A 56-year-old Emirati police officer at the Anti-Narcotic Department in Dubai police, said that they were summoned to inspect the dhow.
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“The customs suspected that the dhow was carrying drugs hidden in the fuel tanks. I asked the sailor about the drugs and he confessed that the dhow’s owner in Iran, gave him the dhow and he didn’t check the tanks,” the Emirati police officer testified.
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The police found large quantity of different kinds of drugs hidden in the tanks and the suspects planned to sell it in the UAE.
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While acquitting the suspects, the Appeal Court said the evidence against them was not sufficient.
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The shipmaster will be deported after serving his jail term and was fined Dh50,000.
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