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Businessman cleared of swindling brothers

The Dubai Court of Appeal has quashed a six-month jail term awarded by a lower court to a 34-year-old Iranian businessman, acquitting him of a fraud charge. The court also quashed the deportation order against the defendant.

The Court of Misdemeanours had earlier sentenced the businessman and each of his accomplices six-month jail term followed by deportation.

According to the prosecution records, the accused together with two compatriot accomplices and another at large swindled two compatriot brothers of Dh50,000 after making them believe that they would invest their money in a US-based investment portfolio.

Hani Hammouda, legal counsel of Kefah Al Zaabi Firm for Advocacy and Legal Consultancy, argued on behalf of the businessman that the complainants alleged they had handed Dh60,000 to one of the other defendants. “They failed to produce any proof of this to the police or the prosecution. One of the brothers was a friend of the two other alleged accomplices.”

“The complainants also said during investigation that they had never met my client before the latter was arrested,” Hammouda said. — mary@khaleejetimes.com