Men cleared of threatening to kill investor

DUBAI // Three men accused of threatening to kill an investor and his children if he did not pay them protection money have been acquitted by Dubai Criminal Court.

The men, aged 52, 51, and 29, all from Kazakhstan, were charged with issuing death threats to a 40-year-old compatriot and demanding he pay them each month. They denied the charges in court.

In March last year they came to the investor’s gym to speak to him.

“I was surprised to see them. They demanded I meet with their boss. I asked who they were and what they wanted,” said the investor who met with the 51-year-old defendant later that day at a cafe in Mall of the Emirates after he spoke to police.

“I was escorted by CID who stood far away and watched as the three men arrived,” he said.

A 53-year-old policeman said the men were arrested after CID officers positioned nearby saw the investor looking afraid as they spoke to him loudly.

They were found not guilty due to a lack of evidence.

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