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29 March 2024

A Nigerian uses forged passport and credit card for buying mobiles valued Dh23,000

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By Eman Al Baik

A Nigerian visitor allegedly used a forged passport and credit card for buying mobile phones for Dh23,000, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

IB, 25, visited a mobile phone shop in Jumeira and handed over a passport and a credit card after selecting mobile phones valued Dh23,000.

The shop’s salesman MK, 26, Jordanian suspected the card after the customer signed on the purchaise bill. He informed the police who came and arrested IB who was caught by the security staff and confiscated the documents he used.

Police found out that the passport and the credit card were forged.

The passport did not belong to the accused and the entry and exit seals were also forged.

The accused claimed that he got the passport and the card from a compatriot who knows only his first name and that later asked him to buy mobile phones using them.

He claimed that he accepted to do that as the later promised to give him some money which he was in a bad need of.

He denied knowledge that the documents were forged.

The Court will give its sentence on April 13.