Dubai visitor splurges with forged ID, credit card

A Nigerian visitor allegedly used a forged passport and credit card to buy mobile phones costing 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 purchase bill. He informed the police who came and arrested IB who was caught by the security staff. The documents he used were seized.

Police found out that both 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 credit card from a compatriot whom he knew only by his first name and that the latter had asked him to buy mobile phones using the passport and credit card.

He claimed that he had agreed to do that as the latter had promised to give him some money which he was badly in need of. He denied knowledge that the documents were forged.

The Court will give its sentence on April 13.
 

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