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UK foreign office consular work under renewed scrutiny linked to aborted Sharjah probe

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Several British expatriates in Dubai, who are the subject of a criminal complaint deemed to be groundless by Hamid Jafar (pictured here in 2012), are frustrated that their request for consular assistance has been ignored.
Several British expatriates in Dubai, who are the subject of a criminal complaint deemed to be groundless by Hamid Jafar (pictured here in 2012), are frustrated that their request for consular assistance has been ignored. © Norbert Schiller/World Economic Forum

The appointment of a new ambassador may have created the sense of a fresh start at the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. But as a secretive Sharjah money laundering probe targeting UK expatriates appears to come to an end without charges, the foreign office is facing new accusations of meekness.

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