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| Subject: Dubai gulag: Innocent man jailed for 10 years over phony fraud charges Mon May 20, 2013 9:08 pm | |
| An Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges.
A defiant Matt Joyce declared his innocence after the guilty verdict against him on Monday and said he would appeal because his conviction was based ''on the evidence of a witness who was found by an Australian court to have lied''.
The Ruler's Court rejected his defence against claims that he received $6 million for his share in a plot to swindle an Australian developer, Sunland, out of more than $12 million in a Dubai land sale.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/dubai-jails-australian-for-10-years-over-fraud-charges-20130520-2jwz6.html#ixzz2TsvvP73W
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