UAE Court Sentences Eight to Life Imprisonment over Arms Supplies to Sudan's Army, State News Agency Says
- The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal sentenced eight people to life imprisonment for supplying weapons and ammunition to Sudan’s Army and laundering money.
- The court said the defendants used companies, bank transfers, cash payments, and forged documents to arrange arms deals, including ammunition shipments to Port Sudan.
- The court imposed additional three-year prison terms, Dh1 million fines, confiscation of funds, and deportation after the sentences were served.
- Six companies were each fined Dh1 million, had their licenses canceled, and faced confiscation of funds; two people were acquitted.
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Amsterdam: Radio Dabinga: Agencies the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal sentenced to life imprisonment...
A court in Abu Dhabi sentenced eight persons to life imprisonment, including Yasser Al-Atta, Salah Qush and Osman Al-Zubair, in the case of "illegal arms trafficking" of the Sudanese army, and sentenced them to imprisonment and a fine for money laundering charges.
The Federal Court of Appeal of Abu Dhabi sentenced eight persons to life imprisonment in the case of arms transfers to the Sudanese Army; the Court completed the case of the network involved in ammunition trafficking and money-laundering; seven others received three years' imprisonment and $272,000 in fines; handed over to RIA News with reference to WAM. Six commercial companies were fined for the same amount; their licences were cancelled. Two …
Eight people in the United Arab Emirates have been sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling weapons destined for the Sudanese army and for money laundering, reports the Emirati state news agency WAM. This represents another blow to relations between the UAE and Sudan, which have deteriorated significantly since the start of the war in Sudan.
Abu Dhabi court hands life sentences in Sudan weapons trafficking and money laundering case
ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal has brought the case of an illicit weapons and ammunition trafficking and money laundering network to a close, convicting several defendants in a case that revealed a network in which arms deals, commercial companies, bank transfers and cash payments were intertwined in the supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the Sudanese Army and the concealment of the true nature, sources and…
UAE court sentences eight to life imprisonment over arms supplies to Sudan's army, state news agency says
A United Arab Emirates court sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over an arms trafficking and money laundering network that supplied weapons and military equipment to the Sudanese army,...
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