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29 March 2024

Six months for palming off fake $100 note

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By Eman Al Baik

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a Pakistani who paid a forged $100 to get a pair of shoes of Dh55 price and the change in UAE dirham, to six months in jail followed by deportation.

The court also ordered MAM, 43, jobless, to pay Dh5,000 fine for possessing forged currency and attempting to defraud.

On June 9, MAM, visited Al Taabir Trading at Al Sabkha area and asked the salesman to show him a variety of shoes, and so did the latter.He asked the salesman if they had high heel shoes. The salesman showed him some and he picked one of Dh55 price, testified Bashir Abdullah 36, Indian salesman.

The client paid the cashier Shamsuddin a note of $100 and asked for change in UAE dirhams. The cashier did not accept the note which had ink stains and told the buyer if he had other currencies which the buyer denied. The cashier told him that he saw other currency notes including Dh100 notes when he first opened his wallet. The buyer denied that and then picked another $100 note and gave it to the cashier.

The cashier discovered that the note was forged and when asking him about its source he claimed the airport’s free zone and then said he had it from his home country.

The cashier called the police and stood next to the door to prevent the buyer from running away.

Saleh Taher, 35, policeman testified that while he was patrolling Al Sabkha area at 10.30pm a salesman approached him and asked him to come to the shop as there is a fake note holder there.

The policeman asked MAM if he had other forged notes, and the later presented other three $100 notes. And, MAM answered negatively to a question if he had other currency.

Asking him about his residency location, MAM told the policeman “I do not have a residency place because I entered the country illegally just last night.”

At the police station, police confiscated 2 or 3 notes of Dh100 with him, the policeman testified.

The criminal laboratory report proved that the 4 $100 notes were forged with high efficiency.