"In Dubai, slow justice belies city’s new status; Fraud suspects sit in jail for years" by Henry Meyer, Bloomberg News | August 29, 2010
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Not long ago, British businessman Ryan Cornelius was living the high life, doing deals in Bahrain and taking his family big-game fishing on his yacht and on safari in Kenya. He is now into his third year in a Dubai jail cell, yet to be convicted of anything.
Tell it to some innocent Muslim trapped in a torture chamber, MSM.
Pfffft!
“The worst aspect of the way we’ve been treated is the fact that the legal system seems to be so suspended in its own inefficiency,’’ he said from a pay phone at Dubai’s Central Prison. “We just don’t seem to move forward. The whole legal system seems to hold you in a state of constant suspension.’’
Have I told you how tired I am of the AmeriKan MSM pot hollering kettle?
Cornelius, 56, and six codefendants have been charged with defrauding Dubai Islamic Bank of $501 million, one of the largest such cases in the history of United Arab Emirates.
Oh, the MSM took up the poor banker's case, huh?
Cornelius says he did nothing wrong, and like others, foreigners and nationals, who profited in Dubai in the boom times, he waits in prison as the legal system slowly tries to separate the guilty from the innocent among those arrested in an anticorruption drive.
Dubai’s image as a global hub for finance and tourism is being tested as it tries to clamp down on excesses such as fraud and overdevelopment, which came with an explosion of people and investment. Its judicial system often has more in common with its regional neighbors than the Western nations that Dubai aspires to emulate, say lawyers and economists who work there....
I'm really tired and offended by the elitist insults from my newspaper, can you tell?
I guess AmeriKa has failed her justice test, huh?
A London-based lobbying group, Detained in Dubai, says several hundred executives may have been jailed.
As an American citizen all I can say is GOOD!!
Maybe if that HAPPENED AROUND HERE we wouldn't have so many lying looters running around!
In all, about 40 percent of the 1,200 people in Dubai Central Prison have been convicted of defaulting on bank loans, Human Rights Watch said in January.
Overlong sentences and a lack of specially trained judges to deal with white-collar crime threaten to discourage investment in Dubai, said Habib al-Mulla, former chairman of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, an industry regulator....
You know, the most important activity and class on the planet!
Defendants can spend months without being charged and are often unfairly denied bail, according to lawyers....
I'm supposed to feel sorry for the richer after what we are doing to poor, innocent Muslims over a frikkin' lie?
At least the terrorists don't have children or families, 'eh?
