5 employees imprisoned and fined for “love adventures”

The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court convicted five public employees of abusing their jobs at one of the country's border outlets for committing the crime of improving disobedience and breaching public morals by exposing female offenders in a manner that damages their reputation, damaging the reputation of the border crossing, and sentenced them to three years imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 dirhams.

The court also convicted the first defendant of the crime of using his job to disclose information about people, and sentenced him on this charge to three years imprisonment, in addition to the isolation of all convicted from their jobs, provided that the defendants from the second to the fifth for three years only.

The investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution in Abu Dhabi resulted in the five defendants in 2018 and 2019 exploiting their jobs, their job descriptions and the tasks entrusted to them to woo some of the girls and women from the border crossing, chatted and exchanged phone numbers with them, and then held a text conversation during which Ratify them and establish romantic relationships without a legitimate link between them.

Investigations showed that the first defendant used his job and defrauded his colleagues to obtain security and criminal data and information about other people and to provide some of his friends and acquaintances, at their request, which is a crime of disclosing the secrets of the employer, which the law provided for protection and may not be disclosed or used for personal purposes .

It was also found that the employers of the accused were warned several times to refrain from these violations, but they went too far in their behavior and did not take into account the sensitivity of their positions as they work in a border crossing.

For its part, the court considered that the behavior of the defendants includes incitement to commit and improve the disobedience of these girls, which is considered a violation of public morals of society, and damage to reputation, pointing to the proven charges of confessing the defendants, as well as recordings of the cameras of the port and the content of the defendants' mobile phones that confirmed the validity of investigations and ratified their confessions.