Two Australian businessmen have been formally charged with fraud, almost six months since they were thrown into a Dubai prison.
Melburnian Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee, from Sydney, were arrested in January on suspicion of bribery while working on a development project for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government-owned Nakheel property group.
Joyce's lawyer Martin Amad today told ABC Radio formal charges had been laid, although the exact details of the allegations were still not known.
David Brown, the Middle East head of the Sunland Group was initially detained and interrogated:
ReplyDeleteHe had his passport confiscated and has bee under house arrest for six months too. He was forced to sign a "confession" in Arabic,and language he does not speak.
All these men must be brought home.