Dubai: A fraudster behind a 6,000 tonne rice scam uncovered by Gulf News last year has been found guilty by a Dubai Court. The Indian expat, K.M, has been sentenced to six months in prison and also ordered to pay $1.20 million to one of his victims. The 52 year old will be deported after serving his jail term, court documents show.
Scores of mill owners from India were left baffled and devastated after 6,000 tonne of rice shipped by them to Dubai in 250 containers vanished between March and April last year. Their collective loss was estimated to be over Dh15 million.
In August 2019, Dubai’s Public Prosecutor ordered a probe into the audacious theft less than a month after Gulf News broke the story.