DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi—the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018—to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion.
The lawyer, U.S. citizen Asim Ghafoor, was also ordered to pay a fine of $816,748 stemming from his in absentia conviction, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency reported late Saturday, adding that he would be deported after completing his sentence.
