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Dubai: Two managers have pleaded not guilty to altering expiry dates and age groups on milk products that were stored in a Jebel Ali warehouse and were meant to be exported to an Asian country.
The American and British managers have denied the charges and are pleading innocent before Dubai Court of Misdemeanour.
The Public Prosecution charged the suspects with altering the expiry dates of milk products and food labels that read the age group of the consumers. They were also charged with possessing fake milk.
Charges
They were charged with altering the age group of consumers from 18 to 24 months on the labels and forging the expiry dates.
Lawyers Ali Abdullah Al Shamsi, Salem Al Sha'ali, Samir Jaafar, Dr Habib Al Mulla and Ali Al Jarman, who are defending the suspects, asked the judge yesterday to bring in prosecution witnesses to give their statement.
Records said the Customs Inspection Department at the Dubai Ports Customs and Free Zones Corporation in Jebel Ali informed the concerned authorities that a logistics company was altering expiry dates on milk products and sticking labels with new expiry dates and new age groups.
Dubai Municipality food safety inspectors and the security at Jebel Ali Port raided the warehouse.
An Australian and a Pakistani suspect were questioned and then discharged for lack of evidence.
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