{"id":2713,"date":"2018-02-06T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T08:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/number-1-plate-abu-dhabi\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T08:24:48","slug":"number-1-plate-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/abudhabi\/en\/news\/number-1-plate-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Bought The Number 1 Licence Plate For AED31 Million Has Been Jailed For Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The man who bought the number 1 licence plate in Abu Dhabi has been jailed for three years after writing a dud cheque, and the Abu\u00a0Dhabi Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati man, <a href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/rare-no-1-plate-in-abu-dhabi-sold-for-aed-31m\">who bid AED31 million for the coveted number plate <\/a>reportedly wrote out the cheque, which <a href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/bounced-cheque-emirati-jailed\">bounced due to insufficient funds.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The matter was reported to authorities, who questioned the man, who confessed that he knew when he issued the cheque, that it would bounce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati man confessed that he was planning to sell the number plate at a later date for a profit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man has had his three-year sentence upheld.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Read:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/tweet-number-plate-battles\"><em>Someone Tweeted An Observation About The Absurd Number Plate Battles In Dubai And You Have To Laugh<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who bought the number 1 licence plate in Abu Dhabi has been jailed for three years after writing a dud cheque, and the Abu\u00a0Dhabi Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling.\u00a0 The Emirati man, who bid AED31 million for the coveted number plate reportedly wrote out the cheque, which bounced due to insufficient &hellip; 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