A Dubai court of first instance acquitted a Gulf man of money-laundering for a crime-related cause, which was his accusation in the drug trafficking case.

The Public Prosecution directed the accused to commit a money laundering crime, by possessing proceeds of money amounting to 27 thousand dirhams, as a result of the crime of trading in narcotic drugs.

According to the testimony of a witness from the General Department of Narcotics Control in Dubai Police, reliable source information was received about the presence of a person called “MA” in the Marina, who possesses a quantity of Larica drug, so he was contacted by a police source, and it was agreed to buy a quantity for 2,600 dirhams.

In the incident, the team was keen to take all legal measures, so it issued an authorization from the Public Prosecution to search the suspect personally, in addition to his house and his car, and to photograph the amount in which he would buy the drug.

The secret police source moved to the specified location according to the predetermined date with the drug promoter, but the source was surprised that the accused was telling him that he does not currently possess drugs, and he will come to the undercover policeman to take the amount from him and go to another person to buy the drugs from him, so the secret source asked him to come by himself to him to receive The drug is from that person.

The control team went behind the secret source to the agreed place, and witnessed the two defendants together, arrested them, and found in the pocket of one of them a package containing a number of "Larika" capsules, and he admitted that he was going to sell them to the secret police source for 2,600 dirhams.

He instructed the accused about a third suspect, who supplied him with these drugs, so the control team asked one of the arrested suspects to contact the third suspect, and inform him of the need for a new quantity of drugs for 2000 dirhams, and set an appointment with him in the GBR area near one of the Hotels, and he was arrested as soon as he was present, and he was in possession of three bags containing Larica anesthetic, in addition to an amount of hashish.

Facing the third defendant, he admitted that he was selling drugs, so the team moved to his residence in "Down Town", and found a large amount of "Larica", plastic bags, and envelopes that are usually used in promotion, and the accused revealed details of promotions he undertook in several places .

It turned out that he had booked a room in a hotel, in which 27,809 dirhams were found, and anesthetic capsules, and he admitted in the police reasoning record that these funds were obtained from selling drugs, so he was directed to him alone to commit the crime of money laundering.

In the investigations of the Public Prosecution, the latter accused denied what was attributed to him, and what he had previously confessed to, and stated that the drugs seized with him for personal use, and that the amount of cash found in the hotel room is his property, and obtained from his family.

For their part, the defense attorneys for the accused, two attorneys Mohammed Abdullah Al-Rida and Ahlam Muhammad Hashim, argued in the defense memo in the case of money laundering that the accused himself was being tried in the case of trafficking in narcotic drugs, and the money he found was assumed to be obtained from that trade, so the two charges are complete. For each other, it is necessary with him to apply Article 88 of the Federal Penal Code, because there is a link between the crimes of trafficking and money laundering, and the article provides for the settlement of the trial of the accused, and the imposition of the punishment prescribed for the most severe crime.

For its part, the court relied on a legal text for money laundering crimes, stating that whoever acquires, possesses or uses materials obtained from a felony or other crime must be a person other than the original perpetrator of the perpetrator of that crime, confirming in its findings that this incident wore the garment of a money laundering crime On the basis of the law or evidence from the reality, and ruled in presence of the acquittal of the accused.

In the investigations, the accused confessed to promoting drug trafficking and changed his statement to the court.