Dubai, April 13: A Dubai court has handed out a suspended one-year jail sentence to a former minister and two company managers, including an Indian, reversing an earlier verdict acquitting them of defrauding a Lebanese woman.
The Dubai Cassation Court earlier sentenced former minister Khalifa Bakhit Al-Falasi and the other persons, B M Raman, an Indian finance manager and Samir Helmi, an American general manager, to two years in jail on charges of deceiving Maysoon Fahmy Jamal and taking over her late brother’s stake in a technology firm.
However, in May, an appeal court acquitted them and threw out that sentence. Yesterday’s decision reversed that ruling.
The court has said the two managers of the technology company would be deported after serving their sentences.
“The court has sentenced the suspects to one year in jail, but the imprisonment will be suspended for three years starting today.
–Agencies