Korean who sold drugs to Pinoys in UAE gets 5 years

A Korean national who sold drugs to Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates was sentenced Tuesday to five years in jail, following his arrest last April.

The Korean was caught with the help of a Filipino was caught earlier, according to a report on UAE news site Gulf News.

On Tuesday, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the Korean, 59, also for resisting arrest, assaulting drug enforcement officers and possessing methamphetamine without any particular intent.

Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal also ordered the Korean deported once he serves his sentence.

The Korean claimed it was the drug enforcement officers who assaulted him at the time when they detained him in the hospital in Satwa. He also claimed he possessed methamphetamine for medical reasons.

An anti-narcotics police major testified that they arrested a Filipino who possessed and consumed methamphetamine, and the Filipino said he got the substance from the Korean.

The major said they "ordered the Filipino to call the Korean and asked him for methamphetamine."

He said the Filipino and the Korean agreed to meet in the parking lot of the hospital in Satwa.

When the drug enforcement officers went to arrest the Korean, he "resisted arrest ferociously," the officer said.

But prosecution records showed the Korean, when questioned by the arresting officers, admitted a Chinese woman provided him with methamphetamine and he sold it to Filipinos. Joel Locsin/KBK, GMA News

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

POPCOM, gagamit ng ‘digital platforms’ para pagtibayin ang mga ugnayang pampamilya

Selling of balikbayan boxes online part of deal between sender, firm —BOC By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA Integrated News

Dozens injured after train derails in Netherlands: emergency services --- Agence France-Presse