UAE Legal Knowledge
White-Collar & Financial Crime in the UAE
A practitioner's guide to economic crime, AML and enforcement in the UAE — grounded in the current statute book: the Penal Code (FDL 31/2021), the 2025 AML law (FDL 10/2025), the new CMA market-abuse regime (FDL 32-33/2025), and the 2024–2026 reforms. 49 in-depth guides across offences, investigation and defence, cross-border recovery, AML/CFT, virtual assets, corporate exposure and sector risk.
Core Offences
- Breach of Trust or a Civil Dispute? The Line Under UAE Law
- Accused of Fraud (Nasb) Under Article 451: From Complaint to Defence
- Forgery of Documents in the UAE: Bank Loans, Deeds and Signatures
- Bounced Cheques in 2026: When It's Civil and When It's Still a Crime
- Enforcing a Cheque as an Executive Instrument (Article 635 bis)
- Commercial Bribery in the Private Sector: Gifts, Agents and Kickbacks
- Counterfeiting and IP Crime as an Economic Offence in the UAE
Enforcement & Defence
- How a Financial-Crime Investigation Begins in the UAE
- Dawn Raids and Digital Evidence Seizure in the UAE: The First Hour
- UAE Travel Bans in Criminal Cases: Imposed, Challenged and Lifted
- Asset Freezing and Precautionary Attachment in UAE Economic-Crime Cases
- Detention, Remand and Bail in the UAE: Your Rights in the First 48 Hours
- Reconciliation and Settlement (Sulh) in UAE Criminal Cases
- Criminal Complaints as Leverage: The Criminal-Precedes-Civil Principle
- Self-Reporting Under Article 284: Turning a Fraud Discovery Into a Penalty Exemption
Cross-Border & Recovery
- Extradition To and From the UAE After the 2023 Reforms
- INTERPOL Red Notices and the UAE: Removal, Provisional Arrest and Defence
- Tried in Your Absence: In-Absentia Convictions in the UAE and How to Reopen Them
- Worldwide Freezing Orders in the DIFC and ADGM: Recovering Assets in Dubai
- Enforcing a Foreign Freezing or Confiscation Order in the UAE
- Family-Office Fraud: Asset Tracing When the Threat Is Inside the Structure
AML & Financial Crime
- The New UAE AML Law Explained: Federal Decree-Law 10 of 2025
- Life After the Grey List: What FATF Delisting Actually Changed for UAE Business
- Beneficial Ownership Compliance Under Cabinet Decision 109/2023
- goAML and STR Filing: A Reporting-Entity Playbook
- Sanctions Screening and the UAE Local Terrorist List (EOCN Obligations)
- Proliferation Financing (CPF): The New Obligation Most UAE Firms Are Missing
- When a Tax Problem Becomes a Money-Laundering Crime in the UAE
- Trade-Based Money Laundering: Red Flags in Gold, Commodities and Free-Zone Trade
- MLRO and Manager Personal Liability Under the 2025 UAE AML Law
Virtual Assets
Corporate & Regulatory
- Can a Company Itself Be Prosecuted? Corporate Criminal Liability (Article 66)
- The Privilege Trap: Why Your UAE Internal Investigation May Not Be Protected
- From SCA to CMA: The UAE's New Market Abuse and Insider Trading Regime
- Whistleblowing in the UAE: One Programme for Onshore, DIFC and ADGM
- UAE Corporate Tax Audits Are Here: Voluntary Disclosure Before the FTA Knocks
- Extraterritorial Sanctions: How OFAC Reaches UAE-Based Business
- Anti-Bribery for UAE Operations: Managing FCPA and UK Bribery Act Nexus
- Director Liability Under the New UAE Bankruptcy Law (FDL 51/2023)
Sector & Institutional
- Personally Named in a UAE Financial-Crime Investigation? A Director and CFO Survival Guide
- Off-Plan Property and Escrow Fraud in Dubai: Recovering Your Money
- Letter of Credit and Bank Guarantee Fraud: When Can You Injunct Payment in the UAE?
- Procurement, Tender Fraud and Kickbacks in the UAE: Corporate Exposure
- Under UAE Central Bank / AML Investigation: The First 72 Hours for Banks and PSPs
- Inside DFSA and FSRA Enforcement: How Financial-Crime Cases Actually Resolve
- White-Collar Allegations and Your Reputation: Defamation, Leaks and Media Under UAE Cybercrime Law
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