Duo on trial for offering bribe to inspector

dubai — Two men have been charged at the Dubai Court of First Instance for offering a Dh10,500 bribe to a customs inspector at the airport in exchange for overlooking a bogus export transaction of a considerable gold shipment.

Public prosecution records show the duo, including a 30-year-old manager and a businessman, 40, both Indians, offered the bribe money to the senior customs inspector, based at the passengers’ operation section, Terminal 1, the Dubai International Airport, in return for overlooking the quantity of gold they wanted to export is real and if it matched with the bills enclosed with the shipment.

Both have been accused of offering a bribe to a public employee, forgery and use of forged document and criminal complicity. The case dates back to March 5.

According to the prosecution arraignment sheet, the manager got a forged purchase receipt (with the help of the businessman) of the gold (over 13kg) valued at $533,624 without settling the payment and without even receiving it in real. The trial has been adjourned to October 21.