The "court" fined them and two mediators 150,000 dirhams

Fahs and his aide jailed for passing invalid vehicles for a bribe

Dubai Criminal Court punished the 4 accused with 6 months imprisonment.

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A technical examiner and his assistant took advantage of the nature of their jobs in a company concerned with checking vehicles for the benefit of the Roads and Transport Authority, and the two trustees were assigned to it, and they passed cars that were unsuitable for traffic, and their movement represented a danger to the safety of their passengers and other road users, for 100 dirhams for the examiner and 150 dirhams for his assistant and two other mediators who brought Customers to employees.

The Dubai Criminal Court punished the four defendants with six months imprisonment, and a fine of 150,000 dirhams on charges of seeking and accepting bribery, and mediating between the briber and the bribed, in addition to a fine of 5,000 dirhams in the charge of forgery with an official document.

The Public Prosecution investigations stated that the defendants passed a number of vehicles that contain technical faults, and did not pass a previous technical examination, because they were free of traffic safety requirements and standards, and fell into the hands of Dubai Police, which prepared an ambush for them by assigning a source to negotiate with them to pass an invalid vehicle.

A “broker” accused in the case said that he works as a driver in a private company, and he learned from his uncle that there is a possibility to earn money by bringing in technically unfit cars, and working to pass them through the examination by two people from his acquaintances, and his task was to receive customers in front of the station and deliver cars to The assistant and the examiner, and wait for the end of the mock inspection process, then obtain an amount of 250 dirhams for each vehicle, and distribute the shares at the end of the day.

He added that he received a phone call from his uncle on the day of the incident, stating that there was a customer who had a car with faults, and he was required to pass it in the same way, so he received it from its owner and handed it to the examiner and his assistant as usual, then he received a signal that it passed the examination, so he went to hand it over to its owner and charge the specified amount, but he was surprised that A police officer, he and the accused employees were arrested, in addition to another mediator.

In the investigations, the technical examiner admitted that he used to pass non-trafficable vehicles into the system and falsify the result, in conjunction with his assistant, as the latter checks the vehicle's brakes, while he checks the rest of the parts, then passes them, pointing out that he was charging 100 dirhams for each vehicle Pass the examination.

The accused said that the vehicle that the police used to trap him had a leak of oil, which was spread in an unsafe way, and it also needed to change metal linings in parts connected to the engine, in addition to other faults that made it completely unsuitable for running, but he overlooked all that. He falsified the result in the system, granted her a validity certificate, and was arrested immediately after that.

For his part, a witness from Dubai Police said, in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, that reliable information was received about an Asian person frequenting one of the inspection stations, and negotiating with owners of vehicles that did not pass the technical examination, offering help in passing them in exchange for sums of money that vary according to the size of the existing faults. Of the vehicle, in cooperation with employees concerned with checking the vehicles before licensing them.

He added that a working team was formed from the Anti-Corruption Department at the General Department of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, which was able to determine the suspect’s phone number, equip an old vehicle with many faults, and subject it to examination and it did not pass it as expected, and he recruited a source to contact the accused mediator by phone, and tell him That he got his phone number from a person and wanted to help pass the car, so the accused asked him to send a picture for the previous technical examination, then he assured him that he could help him, and so he prepared an ambush for all the accused, and caught them red-handed.

5,000 dirhams fine for those accused of forgery with an official document.

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