UAE | Crime
Learner accused of offering bribe to RTA examiner
A Chinese national, while taking her driving test, allegedly tried to influence a Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) examiner by offering her a bribe of Dh2,000, a court heard here.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:07 October 2, 2008
Dubai: A Chinese national, while taking her driving test, allegedly tried to influence a Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) examiner by offering her a bribe of Dh2,000, a court heard here.
Records showed that the suspect had failed her driving test.
The Emirati examiner informed her superiors when she discovered that the woman had left an envelope containing money under the radio of the vehicle.
The RTA examiner, Z.M., told the Public Prosecutor that the suspect, Z.Y., after placing the envelope in the niche, winked at her, urging her to be silent in the presence of the other candidates appearing for the test.
When Presiding Judge Abdul Majid Al Nezamy of the Dubai Court of First Instance called out Z.Y.'s name, she was absent.
Z.M. testified: "When she got into the driver's seat to start her test, she placed an envelope under the radio. She winked when I asked her what it was. She was trying to get me to keep silent."
The examiner alleged that the suspect had asked her to accept the envelope, saying, it "is a small present for you".
The complainant refused to accept the envelope and handed it over to her supervisor instead, who opened it and discovered the cash in it.
The suspect was reported to the police who later arrested her.
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