The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court sentenced a man accused\nof illegal trafficking in firearms and ammunition to ten years’ imprisonment\nand a fine of one million dirhams, with the seizure of the items involved in\nthe illegal trade, and compelled him to pay the costs, fees and disbursements\nresulting from the disposal of the seized items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The accused engaged into a criminal activity, namely\nthe trafficking of firearms and ammunition without a licence from the competent\nauthorities, offering them for sale by posting pictures of the weapons and\nammunition on social media. The authorities quickly became aware of the matter,\nand established a plan which consisted of contacting the “seller”\nthrough an undercover agent who allegedly wanted to acquire weapons. He agreed\nwith the ‘seller’ on the price to be paid and the place of delivery. After\ninvestigation, the Public Prosecution issued a warrant for the arrest of the\naccused and the search of his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based on the warrant issued by the Abu Dhabi Public\nProsecution, the accused was arrested, his home searched and items were seized.\nThe technical examination of the seized items revealed that it was an automatic\nrifle with its complete parts ready for use, in addition to ammunition and\nbullets of the same calibre as the seized weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In substantiating its decision, the court stated that\nthe evidence against the accused was clear, in addition to the accused’s own\nadmission during the investigation conducted by the Public Prosecution and his\nstatements recorded in the seizure report and the forensic evidence report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be noted that Article 3\/1 of Federal Decree\nLaw No. 17 of 2019 on Weapons, Ammunition, Explosives, Military Materiel And\nHazardous Substances, provides that the “Possession, Acquisition,\nObtainment, Carrying, Import, Export, re-Export, Transit, Trans-shipment,\nTrade, Manufacture, Repair, transportation, or disposal of any weapon,\nAmmunition, Explosives, Military Materiel, or Hazardous Substances, shall not\nbe permitted in any way, except after obtaining a Licence or Permit to this\neffect from the Licensing Authority or from the Concerned Entity, according to\nthe provisions of this Decree-Law.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court sentenced a man accused of illegal trafficking in firearms and ammunition to ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of one million dirhams, with the seizure of the items involved in the illegal trade, and compelled him to pay the costs, fees and disbursements resulting from the disposal of the seized …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45901,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45900\/revisions\/45901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}