Dubai Informer

A Filipina housemaid is to serve three months in jail after she admitted in court that she stole 600 euros, which is roughly 2,600 AED, from her sponsor. The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 25-year-old Filipina housemaid of the charge of stealing money from her Belgian sponsor at her house in Emirates Hills. [...]

• Londoner jailed over cheques never meant to be cashed
• Gulf’s ‘British isle’ resort on hold until Safi Qareshi’s release

A Dubai court sentenced the Briton Mark Arnold to 15 years in jail on Monday for killing his South African ex-lover, Kerry Winter. They rejected defending arguments that the woman had only faked her death, her family’s lawyer said. Dubai’s Criminal Court of First Instance “found the defendant, Mark Arnold, guilty of first degree homicide [...]

Good Question? What will happen to you if you sell marijuana to an undercover police officer from the Criminal Investigation Unit in Dubai? And who would be so stupid to do this you ask? A plumber and an assistant mechanic got handed out a life sentence each from the Court of First Instance in Dubai [...]

Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai HH Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in his capacity as the ruler of Dubai, has ordered the release of 427 prisoners serving terms at the correctional and punitive institutions in the emirate. The amnesty is granted to mark the Eid Al Adha and [...]

The defense apparatus in the United Arab Emirates arrested 45 suspects, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese, after the plot to blow up Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) was uncovered. Dubai Tower, currently under construction, is the tallest building in the world. The current wave of arrests adds to the eight other suspects detained immediately after the [...]

More than 800 police personnel were deployed to arrest a gang that stole Dh4 million last week from a vehicle belonging to a security company which provides cash management services, a senior police official said. Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, head of Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said the culprit, an Asian driver, was arrested [...]