Maid sublets Dubai flat for gambling for Dh100

Dubai - Cash and other tools allegedly used in gambling were seized from the place.

A housemaid has been charged at the Court of First Instance for allegedly subletting her flat to be run as a gambling den.
According to the public prosecution records, the 46-year-old Filipina maid used to collect Dh100 per day from other accomplices, already convicted, so they could gamble at her place in Al Satwa.
The police raided the flat on May 12, last year, and the case was registered at Bur Dubai police station.
She admitted during investigation she sublet the flat to other suspects to gamble there for Dh100 a day.
A policeman, who was a member of the task force that made the raid and arrests, said: "We had a reliable source tipping us off that a Filipina was using her flat in suspicious illegal activities. 
"After obtaining a public prosecution warrant, we raided the flat and arrested five persons, including women, and they had been convicted in connection with this case."
According to the policeman's testimony, the five accomplices admitted they got the flat from the maid for gambling purposes and she was aware of that and allowed it. They would pay her Dh100 a day. One of them claimed it was the maid who was running the business.
Cash and other tools allegedly used in gambling were seized from the place.
The maid admitted during the public prosecution investigation she was aware of the gamble business in her flat.