The Dubai Criminal Court has started a trial of an Asian vehicle examiner who systematically took bribes to pass about 660 vehicles containing technical malfunctions and failed to pass the technical examination for lack of traffic safety conditions by receiving a family ring consisting of a man and his two nephews, Mediated to bring in defective vehicles, and passed about 10 cars a day over a period of months.
A Dubai police officer who investigates cases of administrative corruption related to bribes and career exploitation by government officials said: "Information received about people charging money from owners of vehicles did not pass the technical inspection, in return for the success of their vehicles at the Maayan center in Warsan region, In that center specialists in the examination of vehicles ».
"The investigation resulted in bringing customers to a certain examiner and getting 250 dirhams from each vehicle owner for the success of his car," he said. And may increase the amount depending on the technical holidays ».
He pointed to the ambush of the accused through communicating with him through a police source, informing him of his desire to examine a vehicle that did not exceed the examination in the past due to technical failures, and was obtained permission from the Public Prosecution to record and photograph the dialogue, and handed over the vehicle to the defendant, The second suspect was the third defendant, the examination officer at the center, who took the examination. After the examination, a fourth defendant went to the source, along with a form The examination that was successful, and requested the agreed amount, p The source handed him AED 250 to the Dubai Police. At that moment, all the accused were given a signal and all the accused were simultaneously attacked, including the examining officer and three intermediaries working together.
The second accused in the case admitted the criminal involvement by incitement, the agreement to falsify an electronic document, and the mediation of a public official to accept a bribe, stating that he was doing so in cooperation with his nephews, the first and fourth accused, and passing the invalid vehicle through the third accused, in the center.
The second defendant said that his nephew, the first accused, is the one who runs the acts of corruption referred to, through his company in which the uncle works. His nephew assigns him to receive the vehicles that contain failures and failed previously to pass the technical examination, to give them to the examiner who is paid 100 AED per day for all vehicles that make it successful, while the mediators get at least 250 dirhams for each car beyond the examination, and may increase the amount if there are many failures in the vehicle.