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28 March 2024

Dubai court jails four in bribery case

The court heard the pleadings of the first accused and his defence lawyers. (Shutterstock)

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By Eman Al Baik

An Emirati employee at Dubai Residency and Foreigners Affairs Department (DNRD) and three others received one year each in jail for bribe issue.

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance also ordered each one of the convicts, two of who are fugitives to pay Dh9,000 and the expatriates to be deported after serving their jail term.

According to the records, Emirati man MJ, 32, accepted Dh3,000 monthly payments in addition to electronics against issuing 118 parental residency visas to expatriates who were not entitled to bring their families.

Afghani sales representative, DS, 29, acted as a middle man between two Indians and the Emirati and was paid Dh5,500 by the Indians for his service.

The two Indians AM, 45 and AA, 42, both are at large, are accused of offering a total of Dh9,000 to the Emirati in three months, through the middle man.

Another DNRD officer who was assigned to check on transactions to reveal if there were any malpractices or illegalities, found out that MJ, had misused his authority and issued residence visas to families of sponsors who were not eligible.

Being incomplete or illegal, MJ used to get rid of them by handling them over to the applicant so that his crime would not be discovered.

However, the department can check on applications electronically even in absence of hard file.

This can be done by checking via the user's login ID, and checking the transactions been processed.
 
"I found out that MJ had issued residencies from the beginning of 2014 till September of the same year to expatriates whose salaries were below the requirement, their professions were not included in the list of legible professions, or to those who failed to submit a lease contract," said first corporal Mansour Omar.

The officer confronted MJ with the illegalities and the latter admitted to the crime.

MJ confessed that AM Afghani used to bring him residency applications of expatriates who were not entitled to sponsor their families.

AM was arrested and he confessed about the two Indians who had handed him the transactions to issue residence visas to illegible expatriates including, cooks, office boys, drivers whose salaries were below the specified Dh4,000.

The department found out that the accused illegally processed 118 residence visas.

In addition to Dh9,000 in cash that the Afghani had handed it over to MJ, he offered him 3 mobile phones and an iPad.