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Court upholds sentences in Dhs185m embezzlement case
Gulf Today
|July 19, 2025
The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld the first-instance court's verdict against 18 suspects of various nationalities, convicted of embezzling approximately Dhs185 million from a law firm, money laundering, leaking sensitive commercial data, and using it to establish fake companies in the UAE and abroad.
According to case files, the court found the suspects guilty of forming a fraud network that laundered the embezzled funds through three companies they established for this purpose. They reportedly used client data from a Dubai-based law firm between 2014 and 2020.
The court of first-instance sentenced four of them to three years in jail, followed by deportation, while the remaining suspects received one-year sentences with deportation. Two were also fined Dhs20,000 each and four others were acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
This story is from the July 19, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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