by: Bassam Za’za
Dubai: A former passport control officer at Dubai’s General Department of Residency and Foreigners’ Affairs (GDRFA) has been accused of accepting Dh227,600 in bribes to forge e-transactions of departure fees of 569 people.
The 24-year-old Emirati officer was said to have accepted the bribe from a 28-year-old Emirati policeman, who was also accused of offering bribe.
The Public Funds Prosecution accused the two defendants, of abusing their public jobs [formerly] and dealing in bribe to forge electronic transactions of departure fees of 569 people between November 2011 and July 2012.
The defendants failed to show up before the Dubai Court of First Instance where they were scheduled to be prosecuted on Thursday.
This article was written by Bassam Za’za and originally published on gulfnews
