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“An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) — who set a shop full of flammable liquids on fire in October 2013 after being denied a transfer from his company in one of the oldest shopping malls in Dubai to a branch in Jebel Ali — has been sentenced to three months jail time,” reports Roy C. Mabasa in Tempo.
The report noted: “The Dubai Criminal Court likewise ordered the deportation of the 43-year-old Filipino working as a sales representative after he has completed his jail sentence.”
According to the court testimony of the head of security at the Carrefour supermarket in BurJuman mall where the defendant’s company rented a shop, the defendant used cardboard boxes to start the fire. Luckily, the security personnel were able to extinguish the blaze as soon they arrived on the scene. There was some damage but nobody was reported hurt.
This was qyuite fortunate, as the store was filled with flammable materials.
The OFW apparently confessed his guilt. However, the OFW also”subsequently denied before the court that he deliberately started the fire, saying instead that it was an accident.”
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