Villas cash row leads to jail terms

DUBAI // Three men have been jailed for three months after for assaulting a man over Dh300,000.

The Iraqi victim, 42, told Dubai Criminal Court he had a deal with three Jordanian s to build villas at the Orange Lake project in Jumeirah Golf Estates. “They owed me Dh300,000 for that project and kept stalling, so I reported them to police,” he said. He said the men – an engineer, 28, an investor, 36, and another man – asked to pay him on December 8.

“At their office they gave me Dh150,000 and a cheque, but then one of them locked the door and the others assaulted me.”

The Jordanians will be deported after serving their sentences.