Tomorrow, the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court will hear a case of a young Arab national who works in the perfume trade. He is accused of facilitating prostitution for some women for a fee and trying to hide his profits from crime by transferring it abroad.
The facts of the case indicate that the Public Prosecution has assigned the accused to exploit the prostitution and immorality of unknown women by facilitating prostitution for them in exchange for a fee and offering them to unknown persons to practice prostitution as described in the papers, and committed the crime of money laundering by deliberately diverting and concealing the reality of the proceeds, their source, location and movement with intent Hide and disguise its source and obtained from the crime subject of the first charge, by transferring money out of the state through exchange companies, and demanded the prosecution to punish the accused in accordance with the indictment provisions contained in the referral order
In the defense memorandum, Hadiya Hammad's client defended the confession attributed to the defendant, where his role was limited to signing only, the invalidity of the investigations and their lack of seriousness, the absence of all elements of the crime, and the absence of evidence of the defendant's evidence of the two crimes, and the absence of the criminal intent of the accused. The court shall acquit the accused of the charges against him.
Hammad pointed out that the first crime attributed to the defendant, namely the exploitation of prostitution and immorality of unknown women, by facilitating prostitution for them, in return for a financial wage, requires to prove this charge to be a place prepared and prepared for the exercise of those acts and that there are women to practice this immorality and men frequent the place, She noted that the case papers were devoid of any physical evidence.
She pointed out that the defendant explained during the prosecution's investigations with him in the second charge, that he is working in the field of perfumes and ready-made clothes, and gets perfume from outside the State where attended by some travelers coming to the state, and after selling it transfers the price to owners abroad, pointing out that the accused He works in a perfume company with a monthly salary of AED 10,000 in addition to the profits he earns from the perfume trade, which shows the legitimacy of the source of the money he transfers.