PRO jailed for offering Dh100 bribe to immigration officer

A public relations officer (PRO) has been jailed for three months for trying to bribe an immigration officer Dh100 for renewing two residence visas illegally. An immigration officer was at his duty station at the Dubai International Airport’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) client services counter, when the Indian PRO, 39, showed up in July 2018.
Being the officer’s frequent client, the Indian asked for the immigration officer’s mobile number, to make future enquiries about residency renewals. An hour later, the Indian defendant called up the officer and offered to pay him Dh50 for each instant transaction, to put the residency stamp on passports without any delay or background check. After discussing the issue with his superiors, the immigration officer was tasked to pretend agreeing to take the PRO’s bribe. The police then apprehended the PRO in a sting operation, catching him red handed offering the bribe.
Poisoning scare: Model claims Putin tried to kill her
A Russian model critical of Vladimir Putin’s regime has claimed that the Russian president had tried to kill her, in the latest poisoning scare at an Italian restaurant in the town of Salisbury in England, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned. While police have since ruled out any Novichok link to the incident, 30-year-old model Anna Shapiro is reported to have said that she and her husband were the two people targeted with suspected rat poison. “I was targeted by Putin’s henchmen. They want me dead as I oppose Putin and have turned my back on my country. Russia is capable of anything,” she told the newspaper.

Man threatens to shoot kid after losing video game
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