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Indian Admits To Wrongdoing In Dubai
- By Bobby Castro
- Published 12/13/2011
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Bobby Castro
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Indian Admits To Wrongdoing In Dubai
An Indian employee of a United Arab Emirates clinic has admitted to wrongdoing in the performance of his job. The thirty three year old admitted that he had falsified blood test results allowing individuals with infectious diseases to renew their visas.
The man admitted charging these infected individual's 1,000 dirhams for the service of replacing their submitted samples with blood taken from healthy individuals. He was able to do so by tagging the test tubes with the replacement blood sample with the names of the infected individuals. He either used his blood or obtained other blood donors to replace the blood given by the infected donor.
Afterwards, the blood samples would then test for infectious diseases. Finding none, the government then issues a fitness certificate to the named individual. This document is essential for the processing of the residence visa. Dubai has recently instituted laws that prevent individuals infected with highly infectious diseases such as Hepatitis, HIV and others from obtaining visit or residence visas in the country.
The larceny ring was found out after a Pakistani was found to have a residency certificate despite being infected with Hepatitis B. After questioning, he divulged that he was able to get his blood checked free of the disease in order to get his residency visa.
In his testimony, the victim admitted to paying 3,500 dirhams to individual fixers who were able to get his application printed and registered. The fixers were arrested and admitted to bribing the Indian man working in the clinic. After payment of the money, the first fixer collected their documents and the second one delivered the documents and money to the Indian insider in the clinic.
As a result of the inquiry, stricter measures are to be imposed in the blood drawing and documentary requirements for the renewal of residence visas. The two fixers were meted out stiff penalties while the Pakistani man and the Indian clinician were both deported and blacklisted from returning to the country, according to court documents.
As a stopgap measure, a government hotline was created to report instances of graft and corruption, exploitation and abuse, violence and crime specifically for overseas skilled workers from India and other countries.
With a current population of 1.4 million, the Indian community is one of the largest populations in the city. Nearly a million reside in Dubai itself while the remainder lives in Abu Dhabi and surrounding areas.
The man admitted charging these infected individual's 1,000 dirhams for the service of replacing their submitted samples with blood taken from healthy individuals. He was able to do so by tagging the test tubes with the replacement blood sample with the names of the infected individuals. He either used his blood or obtained other blood donors to replace the blood given by the infected donor.
Afterwards, the blood samples would then test for infectious diseases. Finding none, the government then issues a fitness certificate to the named individual. This document is essential for the processing of the residence visa. Dubai has recently instituted laws that prevent individuals infected with highly infectious diseases such as Hepatitis, HIV and others from obtaining visit or residence visas in the country.
The larceny ring was found out after a Pakistani was found to have a residency certificate despite being infected with Hepatitis B. After questioning, he divulged that he was able to get his blood checked free of the disease in order to get his residency visa.
In his testimony, the victim admitted to paying 3,500 dirhams to individual fixers who were able to get his application printed and registered. The fixers were arrested and admitted to bribing the Indian man working in the clinic. After payment of the money, the first fixer collected their documents and the second one delivered the documents and money to the Indian insider in the clinic.
As a result of the inquiry, stricter measures are to be imposed in the blood drawing and documentary requirements for the renewal of residence visas. The two fixers were meted out stiff penalties while the Pakistani man and the Indian clinician were both deported and blacklisted from returning to the country, according to court documents.
As a stopgap measure, a government hotline was created to report instances of graft and corruption, exploitation and abuse, violence and crime specifically for overseas skilled workers from India and other countries.
With a current population of 1.4 million, the Indian community is one of the largest populations in the city. Nearly a million reside in Dubai itself while the remainder lives in Abu Dhabi and surrounding areas.