Dubai Court cancels Dhs150m fine in Abu Sabah case

The Dubai Court of Cassation has closed the case known as Abu Sabah case by partially overturning the ruling issued by the Court of Appeal, thereby cancelling the proportional fine of Dhs150 million imposed on the businessman known as Abu Sabah jointly with the other defendants and confiscating instead the money involved in the crime.

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The court upheld the rest of the ruling where the defendant was sentenced to five years in jail to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs500,000.

In addition, the court upheld the jail terms and penalties imposed on the other defendants in the case after they had been convicted in one of the largest money laundering cases that Dubai courts heard.

Earlier, the Court of Appeal increased the financial penalty imposed on Abu Sabah to Dhs150 million jointly with the rest of the defendants and upheld the initial ruling to sentence him to 5 years to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs500,000 after he and 32 other defendants had been convicted in a money laundering case.