Dubai: The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court has convicted six Pakistanis and two companies owned by one of them for money laundering by conducting suspicious banking transactions to hide the source of the funds, which were obtaining through drug trafficking.
Each of the accused were fined Dh10 million and were sentenced to 10 years in prison. They would be deported after serving their terms.
The two companies were fined Dh50 million each for money laundering. One of the companies specialised in advertising and the other was an e-commerce firm.