Conman used forged ID card to get credit card

MAM, 33, a Pakistani businessman, allegedly forged an ID card which he submitted to Al Futaim Finance to get a ‘Najm’ credit card with which he withdrew Dh22,000.

Ali Mohammed, a legal affairs employee at the company, testified that the accused applied for a Najm credit card on September 27, 2012.

“The forgery was discovered when the company checked the passport’s photocopy with the ID card. We found that although both carried the same person’s picture, the number of the passport on the ID was different. We also found out that a woman called Noora had submitted the application and that the accused had already used the card issued to him on September 30 for buying jewellery worth Dh22,000.

“In coordination with the police, the accused was arrested after he was asked to visit the company. The company will take disciplinary action against the employee who failed to check the documents before issuing the credit card,” he testified.

BND, a salesman who promotes the company’s ‘Najm’ card, testified that he did not know the accused or the woman.

“Noora claimed that the applicant is very busy so he sent her to apply for the card on his behalf. She phoned him and I spoke to him and he told me that he is busy and that he sent her with his documents including passport photocopy, ID photocopy, photocopy of his ATM, purchase receipts and bank guarantee.

“The application was signed by the applicant. I admit that I trusted the woman with whom I had dealt several times. I admit my mistake that I did not ask the applicant to come personally to check his identity. I did not get from them any benefit for processing the application. I did not know whether she or he had collected the card,” he testified.

The accused attempted to obtain another card from the company so he called the company and left his number with the customer service.

LIG, salesman, was assigned to contact the prospective client to process his application. “I met him in Sharjah and got his documents. I was supposed to check only one original document. He showed his ID which he did not hand over to me, pretending that he is busy. He signed on the application and left. The sales department discovered that the document was forged,” he testified.

When police arrested the accused in the company, he claimed that LIG had forged the document. However, police confiscated a number of passport photocopies of different people in his car. He claimed that the woman was his friend and visited him occasionally. He claimed that she had proposed the idea of getting credit cards from the company and so he handed over his documents to her.  He gave the police her mobile phone number but she is still at large, the records said.

Criminal Evidences reported that the ID card confiscated from the accused was forged.

The Court will give its verdict on May 6.
 

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