Two jailed and fined for fraud

A Ghanaian and a Nigerian man have been sent to jail for six months, fined Dh5,000 each by the Dubai Criminal Court and will be deported after serving their sentences for trying to defraud two nationals of Dh130,000.

The court hearings revealed that DM, an unemployed man from Ghana, and GN, a Nigerian visitor, had told company manager, Ghanem Eid Ghanem and student Ibrahim Ali Ibrahim, both nationals, that the Ghanaian Embassy in Abu Dhabi had seized $9 million (Dh33m) that belonged to the accused and with which they had planned to set up a business.

And to release the money they needed Dh130,000.

To further convince their victims, they introduced a copy of a cheque for $9m from a British bank as well as a false document to prove that the amount had been transferred to the embassy.

The two nationals handed over Dh130,000 and the accused returned with a box they claimed contained $9m and pulled out a $100 note from the box to prove it.

They then asked the two defendents to keep the box with them. It was then that the nationals suspected the intentions of the accused and called police.

The two accused were arrested and charged with counterfeit and fraud.

A criminal lab report said seven $100 notes found in the box were fake.

 

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