2 Indians forge Emirates papers for Dh510k loan

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced two Indians to one year in jail each for forging documents in order to get Dh510,000 loan from a bank.

FKB, 37, jobless and ABM, 44, a sales executive were also found guilty of swindling and ordered to be deported after serving their jail terms.

The two forged a salary statement and a salary transfer receipt and stamped them with a fake stamp. The two also used a fake residency stamp on a copy of a labour card.

SAK, an Emirati, in charge of risk management testified that an employee of the bank, MBM, suspected the intention of 2 customers who had approached the bank for a loan. Whenever the bank official would ask the two to submit a document, they would make the submission the very next day.

The duo were asked to get a clearance letter from their previous bank. He checked with an employee of the former bank regarding an account statement the customers had submitted. The bank confirmed that the statement was forged so he notified the police.

MBM, 27, Syrian, testified that he had received a call from someone who claimed his name was AT for a loan.

During the course of the conversation AT told MBM that he would send someone called Savio and emailed the latter’s mobile number to him.

“I called Savio and he told me that he works for the Emirates Group as a manager and that he had been working for the Group for the last 11 years and that he earns Dh35,000 per month. I asked him to send me copies of his passport with the visa page and labour card and a bank statement confirming the same. Against the submitted documents, an initial approval was made on Dh510,000 instead of Dh600,000 as requested by the client.

"I suggested passing by him at his work place to get the original documents and so that he could sign on the documents, but he gave the excuse that only employees can get in. So we met across a mall upon his request and he signed on the loan applications and handed over original documents of the Group and his bank statement.

"I told him that I would still need a clearance letter from his bank. He later submitted a copy of it and then I asked him that I would need a salary transfer letter from his work place which he submitted on the following day together with a salary transfer letter belonging to AT. As I suspected the two men, I informed my senior officer and then informed the police who asked me to carry on with them to trap them,” he testified.

The two admitted that the documents were forged and claimed that a third entity called Peter had arranged the forged documents, testified Lieutenant Ahmad Suhail.

Criminal Evidences reported that the passport used in the crime in the name of Savio was forged, including the image, residency stamp as well as entry and exist stamps.

The Emirates Group documents were not issued by the group and were fake. The documents which claimed that they banked with the group was also forged.

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