Minimum six months’ jail and Dh100,000 fine for organised begging in UAE, Public Prosecution warns
Those bringing in people to the country for begging shall be subject to same penalties
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Abu Dhabi: UAE Public Prosecution has warned against organised begging in the country with up to six months in jail and a minimum fine of Dh100,000.
According to Article 476 of the Federal Decree-Law No 31 of 2021 on Promulgating Penal Code (Law of Crimes and Penalties), ‘whoever manages the organised begging offence committed by an organised group of two or more people’ shall be sentenced to detention for a minimum term of six months and a minimum fine of Dh100,000’.
It also states, ‘Whoever brings persons to the State for the purpose of using them in organised beginning offence’ shall be sentenced to the same penalty.