The court sentenced the 6 -member gang accused to six months in jail and fined them for allegedly assaulting the villa owner and his wife and extorting money.

The court sentenced the 6 -member gang accused to six months in jail and fined them for allegedly assaulting the villa owner and his wife and extorting money. One of them in absentia and the others in their presence to sentenced life imprisonment and deportation. The appellate court also fined them Dirhams 936,000 for the value of the stolen property.

The gang took $ 200,000 from the villa, two mobile phones, three expensive watches and a diamond ring worth 390,000 Dirhams. The lawsuit was filed in May last year after a European man and his wife allegedly assaulted, robbed and threatened to kill six former business associates.

The complainant told investigators that he was surprised when people he knew in earlier visiting him, threatened to kill him, assaulting him and his wife and demanded them to pay the money they had lost money in the virtual currency investment.

The defendants had sought advice on currency deposit from the complainant. The money was allegedly looted following the same. The defendants pleaded guilty during the investigation.