Article 174
A person is sentenced to death if they try or attempt by force to change or take over the political system
Article 180
A person is punished with temporary imprisonment if they form, found, organise or manage a society, committee, organisation, group or branch to these structures regardless of the name of the form, which seek or call for the overthrow of the political system in the country or take over or suspending the constitution or laws or opposing the fundamental principles of the political system of the country or preventing a government institution or a public authority from exercising its work or infringing on personal freedoms of citizens or any freedom and public rights established by the constitution and law or harming the national unity and societal peace. A person is sentenced to prison no more than 10 years if they organise societies, committees, associations and organisations as described in the first provision of this article or cooperate with them or take part in any form or provide them with financial and material help while being aware of their intentions
Article 182
A court rules in the situations described in Articles 180, 180 repeated, 191 and 191 repeated for the dissolution of societies, associations and organisations or their branches and closing their places and the court rules in all of the cases to confiscate money, equipment, papers and tools and others that might have been used to commit the crime or what is available in place of meeting for these societies, associations, organisations and branches The court must also rule to confiscate the money apparently owned by the convicted person if there is sufficient evidence or signs that the money is in fact a source of income designed to spend on the societies, associations, organisations or branches mentioned above
Article 170 Repeated
If a person commits a crime from the ones mentioned in articles 154, 155 provision (1) number (1) and provision (2), 157, 158, 167, 169 from this chapter with a group, foreign organisation and others regardless of the name or any person who works for them will be punished as prescribed for this crime
Article 180 Repeated
A person is imprisoned no more than 10 years if they promote verbally or through writing or any other way to the following acts and for the purposes outlined in Article 180 of this chapter. A person is punished with the same punishment if they obtain or possess personally or through an intermediary copies, prints, recordings that include promotion or elevating anything mentioned in the first provision if they were prepared for distribution and to show them to other, or any person who obtain or possess any tool of printing, recording, publicity tools used or prepared to be used even if temporarily to print or record or promote the above mentioned.
Article 182 Repeated (1)
A person is sentenced to imprisonment for no more than 10 years who uses religion to promote verbally or by writing or by any other way ideas that might provoke sedition or harm the national unity or societal peace
Article 182 Repeated (2)
A person is sentenced to imprisonment if they are aware of a crime from the crimes mentioned in chapters 1 and 2 and the court has the right to refrain from punishing the offender's relatives, in-laws to the fourth degree
Article 197 Repeated (2)
A person is imprisoned or fined if they use any communication or information technology tool or any other tool to spread information, news or provoke actions that can expose the country's security to danger or disturb the public order.
Article 198 repeated
A person is sentenced to imprisonment when they deliberately spread news, statements, rumours or propaganda that can disturb the public order and terrorise the people or harm public interests. They are punished with the same punishment if they obtain or possess personally or through an intermediary copies, prints, recordings regardless of their form that include something mentioned in the first provision if they are prepared to distribute or show them to others or any person who obtain or possess any printing, recording or publicity tools used or prepared for use even temporarily to print, record or publicise anything of mentioned above.
The punishment is temporary imprisonment if the offender is from the Armed Forces, the Interior Ministry, Security Forces or if the actions mentioned in the previous provisions inside places of worship or places of the Armed Forces, Interior Ministry or security agencies.
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A foster couple or family must:
- be Muslim, Emirati and be residing in the UAE
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- be free of infectious diseases or psychological and mental disorders
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Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.
Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
“Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.
“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.
Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.
From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.
Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.
BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.
Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.
Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.
“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.
“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.
“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”
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