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| Pakistani jailed for spying in UAE |
| 2013-09-12 |
[Dawn] A top Emirati court on Wednesday placed in durance vileYou have the right to remain silent... a Pak man for three years for spying for a foreign country, the official WAM news agency said. The Federal Supreme Court ruled that the Pak, who worked as a "driver at a sensitive government department," had been recruited by an intelligence officer at a foreign embassy in the United Arab Emirates. The man had supplied photographs of meetings in the Gulf country between UAE officials and foreign delegates, WAM reported. The Pak had confessed to having received 30,000 dirhams (more than $8,000) from the officer whom he met several times at the embassy headquarters and at the Iranian hospital in Dubai, said WAM. WAM did not specify the country for which the defendant was convicted of spying. The Abu Dhabi court also acquitted a second suspect, an Iranian, on trial for the same offence for lack of evidence, WAM said. An Emirati national married to an Iranian woman was sentenced in January to seven years in jail for spying. Iran and the UAE are in dispute over ownership of the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb, which lie in the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the oil-rich Gulf. |
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