Ex-Leeds United chief and GFH Capital general counsel David Haigh has been found guilty of embezzlement and breach of trust in Dubai and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
Haigh’s sentence includes time served and he will be released in November, having spent 13 months in prison in Dubai before he was officially charged in June.
He was arrested in May last year when his former employers accused him of forging £3m of invoices in connection with the sale of Leeds United.
Haigh was represented by Dubai lawyer Michel Chalhoub in the four hearings leading up to his conviction after his lawyers, Stephenson Harwood, came off the record due to more than £1m in unpaid legal fees.
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