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Debt Enforcement & Management

Calls for Sheikh Mohammed to save Russian cancer victim’s life.

Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained in Dubai has written a letter to Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, enclosing a heart breaking plea from Russian businesswoman Bika Magomedova.

6 April 2021

Debt Enforcement & Management

Desperate Russian cancer victim held hostage in Dubai over debt.

Bika, 49 and a 25 year resident of Dubai decided to open a bakery in JBR, an upmarket area in Dubai. Bika, originally from Dagestan in Russia, chose a commercial real estate agent called Salwan LLC, a subsidiary of Dubai Properties.This was not Bika’s first business (sh...

25 March 2021

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The truth about leaving a debt behind in Dubai

Common myths explained by the debt team at Detained in Dubai.

31 December 2020

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Woman unjustly detained in UAE finally freed after UN complaint, now at home on coronavirus lockdown

After two and a half years behind bars in Sharjah’s infamous central prison, 58 year old Indian woman, Mary D’Souza, has finally been released and returned to her family in India.

31 December 2020

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Bank´s debt collection and enforcement agencies outrage customers with cowboy style harassment

"It is no secret that UAE banks have stepped up their efforts to enforce debts internationally and of course, there is nothing wrong with that. The world is becoming smaller and people don’t expect that a simple relocation will alleviate them of their contractual obliga...

30 November 2020

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Banks in the UAE are judge, jury, and jailer

In May of 2018, British national Ryan Cornelius was coming to the end of a 10 year prison sentence in Dubai when he was unexpectedly brought by police to a judge’s office where he was informed that his punishment was being extended another 20 years. He was further told ...

30 November 2020

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Interpol & Extradition

Brits’ release from Interpol detention nightmare secured, by tireless NGO: Detained In Dubai

A UK based NGO has secured the release of a British woman, who declines to be named, after a month under arrest in Italy, waiting to hear if she would be extradited to serve a lengthy term in a Dubai desert jail. Her crime? She simply fell behind on her credit card payme...

30 November 2020

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Debt Enforcement & Management

Locked down and locked out; Scotsman homeless and stranded in Dubai

After a series of hardships, British national Malcolm David Faren finds himself penniless and on the street in UAE, with no visa and no passport and no way to go home.

24 August 2020

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