Asian gets 10 years’ jail for possessing 7kg of marijuana in Dubai

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to 10 years in jail to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs50,000 after he was convicted of importing and possessing 7 kilograms of marijuana and attempting to bring them into the UAE via Dubai International Airport.

The case dated back to last January when a customs inspector suspected a carton belonging to the convict who came from an Asian country. The inspector stated during the interrogations that after he stopped the convict, he inspected his carton where 6 plastic rolls, which were wrapped with a brown adhesive tape and contained a dry material suspected to be narcotics.

The inspector added that he referred the convict to the General Department of Anti-Narcotics and the materials to the Dubai Police’s Forensic Lab where the seized material was found to be marijuana and weighed 7 kilograms.

On interrogation, the convict confessed to having imported and possessed the seized material in order to bring it into the UAE and deliver it to another person.