The Abu Dhabi Prison Courtroom, which has jurisdiction over cash laundering and tax evasion offences has convicted a defendant concerned in a case of laundering quantities derived from embezzlement, intentional injury to public funds, and forgery and use of cast official paperwork, making the most of his place in a public company to create false scholarship information with the goal of defalcating funds from his using authority, totalling some 40 million dirhams.
The prison courtroom sentenced the accused to fifteen years’ imprisonment for committing the offences of appropriation and intentional injury to public funds, forgery and use of cast official and customary paperwork, restitution of the embezzled sums, and a nice equal to the sums defalcated, i.e. 40 million dirhams. The courtroom additionally imposed a ten-year jail sentence and a nice of ten (10) million dirhams on him for the crime of cash laundering, and ordered the confiscation of all proceeds and objects seized and linked to, utilized in, or ensuing from the crime.
The investigations performed by the Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution revealed that the defendant abused his skilled place to commit the offences of appropriation of public funds, and tried to cover and disguise the reality and the supply of the funds derived from his prison challenge, by buying luxurious vehicles, registration plates with distinguished digits, priceless jewelry, and journeys overseas.
Within the context of this case, the Public Prosecution advocated the necessity to protect public funds and to take all obligatory measures to counter any try to applicable or receive such funds by fraudulent and unlawful means, in such a approach as to make sure the safety of the sources and capabilities of the nation and the preservation of the integrity and transparency of its monetary and financial system.
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