Dubai court dismisses request to extradite British brothers

The Dubai’s highest court has rejected a British authorities’ request to extradite three British brothers for their alleged involvement in conspiring to launder money and cheating public revenues amounting to Dh506 million.

The legal authorities in the UK lodged, through the diplomatic channels, a request to extradite the British brothers before Dubai Public Prosecution [DPP] for their alleged role in tax evasion, money laundering, cheating public revenue and selling or offering goods for sale with illegal trademarks.

The Dubai Cassation Court rejected the extradition request after the brothers’ lawyers Ali Ismail Al Zarouni and Ismail Al Zarouni argued that their clients’ did not commit any of the above mentioned crimes and requested dismissal of the case due to time lapse as the alleged crimes happened more than five years ago.

In the extradition request, the British authorities mentioned that the three brothers were primary members of an organised crime group and were wanted in the UK for crimes that were reportedly committed between year 2004 and 2008.

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