Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to five years in jail to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs50,000 for helping his wife abuse narcotics and possessing a quantity of the same that he bought from an unknown dealer via a social networking channel.
The court also banned him from transferring or depositing money to others, whether directly or indirectly, except after a permission was issued by the Central Bank of the UAE in co-ordination with the Ministry of Interior. This ban will continue for two years after the sentence is executed.
The case dated back to April last year, when a tip-off was received by the General Department of Anti-narcotics stating that an Asian woman, the defendant’s wife, residing in Al Muraqqabat area, was abusing narcotics and possessing a quantity of them.
After the tip-off had been authenticated, the wife was arrested in her place of residence.
On search, a white crystalline substance of methamphetamine weighing 40 grams was seized together with another brown substance containing the same psychotropic substance.
A policeman stated in the interrogations that he saw the defendant in the same place, where he was in a state of fear and abnormal hesitation, though no smell of alcohol was emanating from him.
After conducting laboratory tests, it was found that the samples taken from the defendant and his wife contained amphetamine and methamphetamine, which were narcotic substances included in the schedule of narcotic substances according to the federal decree no. 3 for 2021.
On interrogation, the defendant admitted that he had supplied his wife with narcotics for free and that he had bought the drugs from a person who had offered them for sale via social media. He had transferred Dhs200 to the person’s bank account and then obtained the drugs via the geographic co-ordinate system on WhatsApp, he said.
The wife was referred to the Court of Misdemeanors.
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