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29 March 2024

Jail for swindling Dh60,000 to issue forged visas

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By Eman Al Baik

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance awarded a Pakistani one-and-a-half year in jail for forging visas, conning a person with Dh60,000 the value of eight forged visas and attempting to swindle a police detective.

NAF, 24, worker, was also ordered deportation after serving his jail term.

According to the records NAF forged eight work visas for Dh60,000 and asked the eight victims to return from the airport in their home country claiming the visas were not ready and needed amendments.

NAF who lives in Sharjah knew his compatriot Atef Shehrazad Khan, 30, who lives in Pakistan over a chat site and their relation developed into a friendship. NAF visited Khan in his village in Pakistan in early December 2010 and claimed to him that he works as a labour supplier in the UAE.

“He suggested to me that if my relatives and friends are interested to work in the UAE that he could arrange for their visas against Dh60,000,” testified Khan. “I gave him photocopies of nine passports as well as pictures of their holders and he left to the UAE saying he would return to Pakistani after two weeks. He did come back and handed me eight visas and told that the ninth one was still under process,” he testified.

Khan handed NAF Pakistani Rupees 690,000 (Dh30,000) on December 12, 2010 claiming the second half of the amount should be handed over during Khan’s visit to the UAE.

“On January 6, I came to the UAE on a tourist visa and on January 15 I handed NAF the remaining Dh30,000 and told him that all visa holders will arrive in the UAE the following day. But the next day NAF told me that there were problems in the visas and asked me to call and inform them. They were at the airport in Pakistan. However, two of them insisted on coming, so NAF issued them tourist visas against Dh1,000 each which he paid from his pocket. I suspected the whole matter as NAF started procrastinating and pretended called a 'sponsor'. The sponsor was NAF himself, I learnt and called the police,” Khan testified.

Police investigated the complaint and found out that NAF solds forged visas. An Indian acted as an interested buyer and contacted NAF for a work visa for one of his relative's friend. NAF told him that the cost is Dh1,500. He agreed and handed him a photocopy of his passport and a picture. NAF called the ‘buyer’ and asked him to meet them at 5pm in Naif area on March 9. As the ‘buyer’ handed NAF the money police arrested him. He initially denied the accusations but when confronted with proof he admitted to the crime.

Police confiscated his computer and discovered a number of documents used for visa forgery.

Criminal evidences reported that the eight visas did not reflect on the  government system.