Criminal Court finds two businessmen charged with drug trafficking innocent
14 Jun 2011, 5:26 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Criminal Court has ruled that the Prosecutor General had been unable to prove that two businessmen Abdulatheef Mohamed and Hassan Ali charged with drug trafficking were guilty of the crime, due to lack of evidence and witnesses presented to the court.
Abdulatheef was arrested by police after they discovered more than one kilogram of illegal narcotics inside his car trunk.
However, the court said that there was not a single piece of evidence presented to the court suggesting that the illegal narcotics were imported with the knowledge of both Hassan and Abdulatheef.
The Criminal Court ruled that there was no reason to suspect that Abdulatheef and Hassan had an intention to traffic drugs.
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