A Dubai bank is instrumental in the long-running detention of the 71-year-old British businessman Ryan Cornelius who is serving a 30-year sentence that will keep him in jail until he is 84, his brother-in-law claims.

Recent accounts show the Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), which claims to be the trailblazer in championing Islamic values in banking, is on course to make more than $2bn in profit this year.

Cornelius was detained in 2008, and convicted with three others of defrauding the bank in 2011. He has already served 17 years but his sentence in 2018 was extended at the request of the bank for a further 20 years, according to information given to a UN working party on arbitrary detention , meaning he will not be released until 2038 when he will be 84 years old.

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