Ex-rugby star Ricky Bibey, 40, is found dead in four-star £350-a-night Florence, Italy hotel room alongside 'seriously injured 43-year-old woman'
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Lawyer of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi is sentenced to three years in prison by the UAE for money laundering and tax evasion
By Jessica Warren For Mailonline
11:34 EDT 17 Jul 2022 , updated 11:34 EDT 17 Jul 2022
Asim Ghafoor has been sentenced to three years in prison on tax evasion charge
The lawyer is also accused of money laundering and was arrested in Dubai
Ghafoor was lawyer to Jamal Khashoggi — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in 2018
The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American lawyer to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion.
Asim Ghafoor was lawyer to Jamal Khashoggi — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
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Ghafoor will be deported, the UAE's state-run WAM news agency reported late on Saturday, without saying when.
The Abu Dhabi Money Laundering Court also ordered him to pay a fine of $816,748 (£688,000) after convicting him in his absence.
Asim Ghafoor has been sentenced an American lawyer to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion
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Asim Ghafoor has been sentenced an American lawyer to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion
The UAE framed Ghafoor's arrest as a co-ordinated move with the US to 'combat transnational crimes'.
Emirati state-run media said American authorities had requested the UAE's help with an investigation into Ghafoor's alleged tax evasion and suspicious money transfers in the Emirates.
The autocratic Gulf Arab sheikhdom announced the prison sentence a day after Washington-based human rights watchdog Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) raised the alarm about Ghafoor's arrest at Dubai International Airport.
Asim Ghafoor was lawyer to Jamal Khashoggi (pictured) — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in 2018
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Asim Ghafoor was lawyer to Jamal Khashoggi (pictured) — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in 2018
Dawn said its board member, a civil rights lawyer based in Virginia who had represented Mr Khashoggi and his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, was in transit to Istanbul on Thursday to attend a wedding when plain-clothes Emirati security agents picked him up and sent him to an Abu Dhabi detention facility before he could change planes.
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