Five men have been sentenced to a year in prison and fined more than Dh1 million following a robbery in Dubai.
Prosecutors told how the gang attacked a man who was carrying Dh1.85m of cash in the city in August this year.
Using pepper spray, the men were able to disable their victim, from Sudan, and flee the scene.
Police were later able to identify all five, aged between 22 and 41, and arrest them.
Officers also recovered the stolen cash, minus Dh100,000 which had already been spent by the gang.
“I tried to resist and chase them but I couldn’t,” the victim told Dubai Criminal Court.
The five defendants were ordered to be deported after completing their prison terms.
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Gender pay parity on track in the UAE
The UAE has a good record on gender pay parity, according to Mercer's Total Remuneration Study.
"In some of the lower levels of jobs women tend to be paid more than men, primarily because men are employed in blue collar jobs and women tend to be employed in white collar jobs which pay better," said Ted Raffoul, career products leader, Mena at Mercer. "I am yet to see a company in the UAE – particularly when you are looking at a blue chip multinationals or some of the bigger local companies – that actively discriminates when it comes to gender on pay."
Mr Raffoul said most gender issues are actually due to the cultural class, as the population is dominated by Asian and Arab cultures where men are generally expected to work and earn whereas women are meant to start a family.
"For that reason, we see a different gender gap. There are less women in senior roles because women tend to focus less on this but that’s not due to any companies having a policy penalising women for any reasons – it’s a cultural thing," he said.
As a result, Mr Raffoul said many companies in the UAE are coming up with benefit package programmes to help working mothers and the career development of women in general.
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