The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court is considering the case of an Arab young man who works in the perfume trade, accused of facilitating the prostitution of some women, amid the perfume trade and trying to hide his profits from crime by transferring it abroad.
According to the case papers, the Public Prosecution assigned the accused to facilitate the prostitution of unknown women, in return for financial wages, and to provide them to unknown persons, without discrimination, for prostitution, and committed the crime of money laundering by deliberately concealing the reality of the proceeds from the crime, its source, location and movement, with a view to disguising its source. The prosecution has demanded that the accused be punished in accordance with the indictment provisions of the referral order.
In the defense memorandum, the client's lawyer, Hadiya Hammad, argued that the defendant's confession was null and void. The court shall acquit the accused from the charges against him.
Hammad pointed out that the first crime attributed to the accused, which is related to the exploitation of unknown women, that he facilitated prostitution for them, for a fee, requires that there be a place prepared for the practice of such acts, and that there are women to practice them, and men who frequent the place, She noted that the case papers were devoid of any physical evidence.
She pointed out that the defendant explained during the investigation of the prosecution in the second charge, that he works in the field of perfumes and ready-made clothes, and gets perfume from outside the State, where it is attended by some travelers coming to the state, and after selling it is transferred to the owners abroad, pointing out that the accused works In a perfume company with a monthly salary of 10,000 dirhams, in addition to the profits he earns from the perfume trade, which shows the legitimacy of the source of funds transferred.