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RTA workers guilty after leaking accident video
Two Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) employees were found guilty of leaking video footage showing a traffic policeman being run over by a speeding car in the Airport Tunnel.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:39 September 10, 2008
Dubai: Two Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) employees were found guilty of leaking video footage showing a traffic policeman being run over by a speeding car in the Airport Tunnel.
The Dubai Court of First Instance imposed a suspended sentence of three years on the Emirati accused, a 50-year-old employee, A.M., and a 24-year-old engineer, A.A. A.M., was acquitted of belittling and defaming the deceased.
Public Prosecution records said the two had apologised to the Emirati policeman's family and said they did not have the intention to demean him.
Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir sentenced them to three months in jail each, but he suspended the imprisonment for three years.
Both men pleaded not guilty.
The 50-year-old was accused of leaking classified information when he permitted the engineer to watch the accident footage from the RTA's control room, and allowed him to record it on his cell-phone.
The 52-year-old brother of the deceased, F.M., testified: "Five days after the death, the father of the person who caused the accident told me someone had been circulating the accident footage. I heard voices of mockery and giggling."
Apologised
A 25-year-old relative, S.D., confirmed F.M.'s statement and told his interrogators he saw the suspects when they visited the family and apologised for what happened without confessing they did it.
"Two weeks later, the engineer told me he recorded the footage and forwarded it without bad intention to a third party whom he accused of circulating the footage. The voice of mockery came from the 50-year-old suspect who phoned me later to apologise...," S.D. testified.
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