Get-out-of-jail cards in UAE: where do you apply?

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Another example of UAE "justice"

http://www.7days.ae/2006/10/12/three...or-a-life.html

For those of you less familiar with the "justice" system in UAE: if the reverse had occured and the expat had been the perpetrator killing a local, there would - first and foremost - have been a demand for 'blood money' amounting to at least Dhs 200,000 (about $ 45,000) before going to jail, paying a fine and, finally, being deported