His friends brought the money and accompanied him in prison

Imprisonment of a thief who offered 200 thousand dirhams to bribe two policemen

The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced an (Asian) accused person to two years in prison and a fine of 200,000 dirhams, after he was found guilty of offering 200,000 dirhams as a bribe to two policemen in Dubai, in exchange for his release, and the same penalty on two of his friends who brought an advance payment of cash to be delivered to the policemen. They were arrested and referred with their friend who was already arrested in a coerced theft case.

The first accused in the investigations of the Public Prosecution admitted that he was arrested last June in an incident of coerced theft, and while he was in the Rifaa police station, he offered the policeman responsible for guarding him 100,000 dirhams in exchange for his release, so the policeman went with him and asked him for a similar sum to his colleague, so the accused agreed, and he got A phone from the policeman, and he called his two friends, the other accused in the case, and asked them to bring the check book from his office, and he drew a check for 150,000 dirhams to the policeman, and the latter told him that he had agreed with him on 200,000 dirhams, but the accused apologized on the pretext that he did not have the required amount, and that he would pay him 50,000 Another dirham after his release, so the policeman agreed.

The accused added in his confessions that he asked his two friends to cash the check from the bank and hand the money to the policeman, but they were unable to do so, due to the insistence of the bank employee to obtain verbal consent from the accused, and he called the latter, but his phone was switched off due to his arrest.

He pointed out that he contacted the policeman, and asked him to allow his friends to come to take his bank card and withdraw the required amount, so he helped him with that, and they withdrew 50 thousand dirhams as a maximum for the daily withdrawal, and handed it over to him, and he in turn handed him over to the policeman, but he was surprised that he was caught red-handed while handing the money, and his two friends were arrested , As they are aware of the content of the agreement.

They were all transferred to the Public Prosecution Office and from there to the Criminal Court, which ruled that the three years imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 dirhams were imposed.

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