Royal forgery gets man loan – also police visit

The Dubai Criminal Court heard a case of an Emirati employee who forged a royal sheikh’s signature on a salary statement letter, submitted to Dubai Bank and got a Dh1.75 million loan.

In February 2008, the accused Sultan MA, 29, with another fugitive, forged a salary statement claiming he was Khalid Sulaiman and that he was a public relations director on a monthly salary of Dh25,700. The letter carried a forged signature of a sheikh.

The accused had also filled a form signed in the name of Khalid Sulaiman and submitted it with a forged passport photocopy  and submitted the forged documents to the bank.

The accused got Dh1.75m loan from the bank in addition to an ATM card and a cheque book in the name of Khalid Sulaiman.

He was also issued the bank guarantee cheques in the same name, testified Al Fateh Altom, 57, Sudanese, Debt Collection Director at the bank.

As the debtor failed to pay the installments, the bank attempted to cash one of the cheques but there was no balance in the account.

The bank filed a complaint to the police against and submitted all documents it had. Police found that the passport number belonged to Sultan and not Sulaiman.

Police also found that all the documents submitted to get the loan were forged.

Dubai Police Economic Crime Department arrested Sultan and confiscated a number of credit cards and ATM cards with different names issued by different banks including the one in the name of Khalid Sulaiman.

Abdullah Masood, 28, a policeman at Bur Dubai Police station testified before the prosecution that the station received a number of complaints from banks about credit and ATM cards fraud against an unidentified person.

All of the reported swindling operations had been committed against banks by using forged documents and attributed to the same sheikh’s office.

Police could reach the accused after arresting another person identified as Khalifa AM, who admitted to applying to Dubai Bank to get credit via a forged letter attributed to another sheikh. Khalifa confessed that he got the forged salary statement from Sutlan MA.

Sultan MA confessed to police that he had supplied the other Emirati with forged passport photocopies and salary statements to enable them get loans. He got a commission for the service, testified Mohammed Rashid 26, policeman.

Saeed Abdullah 22, policeman who inspected the accused’s company premises testified that the accused has confessed to the accusation.

The Court adjourned the case until September 28 to hear the defence.

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