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29 March 2024

Female drug dealer gets Dh50,000 fine, life in jail

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Police women in Abu Dhabi posing as customers nabbed a major female drug dealer who was selling a large amount of valium and other illegal drugs and sedatives, newspapers reported on Thursday.

Acting on a tip-off, three police woman disguised as drug users and contacted the Arab woman for a possible deal involving the purchase of 300 tapes of those drugs in return for Dh1,000 per tape, they said, quoting police sources.

Once they were handed the drugs, they arrested the woman at the agreed place in early 2010. They also seized her car after finding a large quantity of drugs. After several sessions, an Abu Dhabi criminal court sentenced the unnamed this year to life in prison, fined her Dh50,000 and ordered her deportation after serving her jail term.

The woman had appealed the verdict but the sentence was upheld by the court of cassation this week. Her accomplice, an Arab man residing in a neighbouring country, was also sentenced in absence to life in jail.