Dirty-money hub Dubai

https://www.transparency.org/news/p...bai_must_clean_up_its_real_estate_sector

The man supplying France with 10% of its hashish: Profile of French drug boss Moufide Bouchibi http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...with-10-of-its-hashish-profile-of-french

Gangster's Paradise: How Dubai Finally Turned On Its Crime Lords
The luxury Gulf city state of Dubai became a magnet for Europe's top traffickers. But new clampdowns mean the heat on mega-rich criminals is rising.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7wkq/dubai-crime-taghi-kinahan

£100 million smuggled in suitcases by money laundering cash couriers https://gangstersinc.org/blog/100-million-smuggled-in-suitcases-by-money-laundering-cash-courie

What draws the gold mafia to Dubai?
An Al Jazeera investigation shows how criminals use the city’s pro-business policies to smuggle gold, clean dirty cash.

Over the last 20 years, Dubai has become one of the biggest gold-trading hubs in the world. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the world’s second-biggest importer of gold by volume, behind only India.

Yet, while Dubai’s markets draw millions of tourists from around the world, the city has also emerged as a preferred destination for money launderers and gold smugglers trying to wash their dirty cash, according to the United Nations (PDF), think tanks and non-profits tracking illicit trade.

Gold Mafia – a four-part Al Jazeera investigation into major Southern African smuggling gangs – uncovers the process that allows these groups to abuse Dubai policies, designed to facilitate business, to instead cleanse billions of dollars of tainted gold and cash.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/6/what-draws-the-gold-mafia-to-dubai-dubai

Nice information and thanks.

Don't forget the city has a population of around 3.49 million, they took free-market capitalism to another level.

'Antwerp drug criminals arrested in Emirates'
November 8, 2023

Two fugitive drug criminals from Antwerp have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates. It concerns an alleged seller of Sky ECC phones, and a suspected drug criminal.

Authorities in the country have arrested Mohamed B., an IT worker from the Borgerhout district of Antwerp, and Ilias EB, suspected of cocaine smuggling. The judge in Antwerp has requested the extradition of the two men. The Gazet van Antwerpen reported this on Wednesday.

Mohamed B. is wanted by the Antwerp court for several criminal offenses. B. was known as a kind of PC Doctor. He was convicted in the trial of 'Fat Nordin' El H., who is also in custody in the United Arab Emirates.

B. is also wanted because he appears in the file surrounding the encrypted communications platform Sky ECC. He was one of the so-called 'resellers' of these devices in the criminal environment.

His brother Said B. was also arrested in Dubai earlier, but he was released pending the completion of his extradition.

Antwerp resident Ilias EB, who, together with his brother Mounir, is the main suspect in various criminal cases taking place in the port of this city, was also recently arrested – in Dubai.

B. is one of the brothers of Samir EB, who was assassinated in Rotterdam in 2018 . The justice department later offered 20,000 euros for the tip that led to the solution of the case .

The parental home of the EB brothers in Deurne has been the target of attacks several times in recent years.