Former UAE-based Briton honoured by queen

DUBAI // A former UAE-based British civil servant has been recognised in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours list this summer.

Shane Nainappan served for four years as an asset recovery adviser to the UAE and GCC at the UK crown prosecution service, before returning home in April.

He was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire, one of 481 awarded this year, “for services to law and order, particularly international cooperation”.

On LinkedIn, Mr Nainappan described himself as “a highly experienced prosecutor with a background in contributing to the successful completion of international asset recovery, proceeds of crime, restraint and extradition across the UAE and Gulf region”.

In recent years, he had built the UK’s prosecution profile in the UAE and Gulf, as the first UK senior liaison prosecutor and asset recovery adviser in the region.

His work included securing the first enforcement of a UK confiscation order in the UAE and first criminal restraint orders, the first successful extraditions between the two countries since the UK-UAE bilateral treaties came into force in 2008, and negotiation participation resulting in the UK-UAE Prisoner Transfer Agreement.