Offering a bribe to a policeman in exchange for not being released

A "muzzle violation" leads an Asian to prison

Dubai Criminal Court has decided to deport the accused after serving the sentence.

Photography: Patrick Castillo

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a visitor (Asian) to three months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams, in addition to deportation, for the offense of "not wearing a mask", when the visitor went to receive a girl who summoned her to do a massage without wearing a muzzle, and he offered a policeman in Dubai a bribe of 3000 dirhams in exchange for not Writing a violation against him, handing him 2000 dirhams, and promising him another 1000 after arriving at the house, despite the fact that the value of the same violation is 3000 dirhams.

The policeman said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution in Dubai that he was wandering around the jurisdiction of Jebel Ali during the implementation of the national sterilization program, and stopped an Asian man and woman violating the decision to restrict movement in light of the measures taken to prevent the emerging corona virus, during the national sterilization program, and did not wear a mask during They park in front of a hotel in Dubai Media Production City.

He added that he asked them about the reason for their exit under the restriction of movement, and whether they had an exit permit, and the reason for not wearing the muzzle, and the accused told him that they went out for a walk, and that the woman accompanied by a masseuse summoned her to perform a massage for him, and the policeman told him that he would issue them a fine for not wearing the muzzle. The accused offered him 3000 dirhams in exchange for not taking any action against him, and he paid him 2000 dirhams, and promised him the rest of the amount upon his arrival at his residence.

The policeman continued that he called his official, the duty officer, and told him what happened, so the officer asked him to bring them to the police station, pointing out that the accused kept begging him inside the patrol, and handed him 2000 dirhams inside the center, in the presence of his colleague, another witness in the case.

With the question of the accused in the inference report, he stated that he lives in the hotel that was seized in front of him, and on the day of the incident he called that woman to come to him for a massage, and when he came to receive her outside the hotel, he did not wear a mask.

The Public Prosecution directed the accused to a felony of offering a monetary sum as a bribe, and referred him to the criminal court.

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