QUEBEC GEOLOGIST DETAINED IN DUBAI ORDERED RELEASED

The lawyer for a Quebec geologist who has been jailed in Dubai after allegedly uncovering fraud in a gold company says all the criminal cases against her client have been dropped. Radha Stirling said the charges against André Gauthier have been dismissed and the country’s ruler and attorney general have ordered he be let go, however he will likely have to remain in the country to face

the civil charges stemming from the same affair. The Gauthier family says André was a whistleblower who alerted authorities in the United Arab Emirates to irregular dealings in a gold-trading company, Gold AE. But they claim he became a scapegoat in the $30-million fraud after the real perpetrators left the country and the company’s investors filed cases against him.