Forged ID used to obtain credit card and buy jewellery for Dh22,000

A Pakistani businessman was sentenced to six months in jail for forging an ID card which he submitted to Al Futaim Finance and obtained a ‘Najm’ credit card. MAM, 33, got Dh22,000 from Al Futaim Finance.

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

“The forgery was discovered when the company compared the passport 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. Investigating further, we 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.

“The accused was asked to visit the company where he was arrested by the police. The company will take disciplinary action against the employee who failed to check the documents before issuing the Najm card,” he testified.

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

“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 had sent her with his documents including passport photocopy, ID photocopy, photocopy of his ATM card and purchase receipts in addition to a bank guarantee.

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

The accused attempted to obtain another Najm card from the company. He called the company and left his number with 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 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 is his friend and visits him occasionally in the company. He claimed that she had proposed the idea of obtaining credit cards from the company and so he handed her over his documents. He gave the police with her mobile phone number but she remains untraceable,  the records said.

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

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