Dubai: A well-known Swedish model and television personality faces life imprisonment after a court convicted him on Wednesday of possessing 21 grams of cocaine for promotional purposes.

Drug enforcement officers were said to have arrested the 29-year-old Swedish man, F.Z., near Armani Hotel following a tip off that he possessed 11 plastic pouches of cocaine for promotional purposes.

Drugs prosecutors accused the defendant, F.A., who is a photographer born in Iran as per records, of possessing cocaine for promotional purposes.

The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced him to life in jail and slapped him with a hefty fine of Dh50,000.