Dubai court rejects Australian businessman Matthew Joyce s appeal - Yahoo!7:
"Dubai's Court of Appeal has rejected Australian businessman Matthew Joyce's application for key witnesses to be recalled in a bid to overturn a corruption conviction.
Joyce was found guilty by the Dubai court in May this year over a controversial property deal in 2007.
Another Australian caught in the scandal, Marcus Lee, was found not guilty, but the Dubai prosecutor immediately appealed the verdict.
Last month Mr Joyce's lawyers applied to the Dubai court for Sunland executive David Brown and Sunland chairman Soheil Abedian to be recalled to allow for a re-examination of their allegations, which had formed the bedrock of the case against Joyce and another Australian businessman, Angus Reed.
Joyce's lawyers argued that because these same allegations of fraud were found to be entirely without merit in a parallel case by Sunland in the Victorian Supreme Court, the pair should return to Dubai.
Now that the Dubai Court has rejected this, the case is closed."
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