Court upholds sentences in Dhs185m embezzlement case

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.

- Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

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.