UAE: In 12 cases, a citizen, his spouse, and sixteen other defendants of various nationalities were found guilty of charges including defacing public property, commercial fraud, profiteering, forgery, bribery, appropriation, and disturbing a public facility.
The first defendant and his spouse were fined Dh39 million and given a 66-year prison sentence by the Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation. The court also granted the other defendants prison sentences. Their penalty varies from three to fifteen years. Additionally, they have been penalized Dh13 million in total.
The Public Prosecution recommended the defendants set up private warehouses, store expired food and other consumer goods, and then illegally change the expiration dates of such goods before reselling them. This led to the ruling.
The defendants jeopardized people’s health and lives by changing the products’ primary characteristics and expiration dates and by providing false and deceptive marketing data for the goods, including organic food items.
Additionally, they used deceptive advertising and false statistics to sell the contaminated, outdated items, giving the impression that they were high quality and suitable for eating to persuade the public to purchase them.
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