Обратно про Дубай.

[astikhin]

Как-то приходилось писать про строительные проекты эмирата Дубай и результатам инвестирования в них. А тут, значиться, поступает новая информация, которую в своей статье Foreigners on hunger strike in Dubai jail приводит издание Financial Time:

About 20 jailed foreign businessmen have gone on hunger strike in Dubai to protest against lengthy sentences for writing cheques that bounced, a criminal offence in the United Arab Emirates.

Mr Margetts is one of three British prisoners who started a hunger strike on Sunday. Other jailed businessmen come from Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon, India and Pakistan.

Many of the hunger strikers fell victim to Dubai’s once-thriving real estate market, struggling to meet their payments when boom turned to bust in 2008. Twelve face sentences of more than 20 years because each bounced cheque can translate into a jail term of up to three years.

British consular officials have visited the jail in Dubai to check on the situation. “The welfare of British nationals in detention remains a high priority,” the embassy said in a statement. “We will monitor the situation closely.”

Ну и на закуску, так сказать:

Christopher was the Managing Partner of construction company "Sire Contracting".  Sire Contracting were commissioned to complete building projects within the UAE. However, when the recession of 2009 hit, the Government bodies decided not to pay the outstanding funds, estimated to be in the ten's of millions of dirhams.  Cheques were raised to ontractors on the basis that the agreement would be honored.

Ссылки по теме:

Irish man leads inmates into hunger strike....
Irish Man Jailed for Bounced Cheques

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[stevycytu.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6M_6qOz-yw

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[astikhin.livejournal.com]

Не так что бы очень понимаю португальский язык, но смог прочитать в укзанных документах про какие-то операции ЦРУ и агенства по по борьбе с наркотиками еще аж в восьмидесятых годах прошлого века.

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