The UAE’s top court annulled a life sentence against two Asian drug dealers on the grounds they only acted as a go-between in a narcotics sale operation in Fujeirah, newspapers said on Tuesday.
The two had been sentenced to life in prison by a Fujeirah criminal court while another court gave them 10 years before they appealed with the court of cassation, which again sentenced them to life.
After hearing their case, the Supreme Federal Court decided to annual the life sentence and referred their case to another court.
The court said the two only acted as transporters for the real drug dealers—an Iranian and Omani—and that they did not receive any money from the cops posing as buyers in the emirate.
“The two were also not caught red handed and police did not find any tools that are normally used by real drug dealers…the two were also found without any police records…transporting drugs to the presumed buyer is not a concrete evidence they were drug dealers,” the court said.