Dubai's appeals court has reduced the sentence of a policeman convicted of a bribe in exchange for a cell phone in the prison for a detainee from three years to one year.
According to investigations by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the convicted person received 5,000 dirhams in violation of his duties in the public administration of penal and correctional institutions, in exchange for the diversion of a mobile phone to a person sentenced to imprisonment in a civil case.
The defendant denied the charge of bribery during his trial before the criminal court, but was convicted by the court and sentenced to three years in prison. According to a police witness during the investigations of the Public Prosecutor's Office, he received information about the acquittal of the convicted policeman, who is an Arab national, in exchange for the smuggling of items that were forbidden to the inmates. An ambush was arranged by one of the inmates, who agreed to leak a cell phone into the prison. The amount of AED 5,000 for telephone diversion and other items that the guest wants to enter or perform other tasks for his benefit. He added that the prisoner asked him for a time to collect the sum. He then informed the staff of the police who provided him with a telephone number. He arranged for him to ask the accused to call this number as belonging to a friend who would give him a phone to enter the prison.
According to the agreement, the convict contacted the specific number and agreed with his owner to meet him at a restaurant in Nad al-Hamar area. The police equipped a Nokia mobile phone with a specific amount of money, and then surrounded the place until the accused arrived and received the amount of bribes and telephones. He was guilty of his crime, and approved the evidence of the police and the prosecutor's investigation of his crime.