Dud cheque convict to be deported

Manama

The High Criminal Court has ordered the deportation of a 40-year-old German businessman convicted in UAE in response to an Interpol arrest warrant issued against him.

He was earlier sentenced in absentia to three years in jail by a UAE court for initiating dud cheques worth more than AED3 million (BD369,532).

The accused, Robin Lohman, was arrested at the Bahrain International Airport when he came to attend the F1 race in April.

Robin and his father Hanns-Uwe Lohman were overseeing the operations of Alternative Capital Invest (ACI) in Dubai, which allegedly failed to complete many real estate projects.

The company is estimated to have collected about US$272m from 6,000 investors.

But the investors have never received any cash returns for the amount they injected in the company.