Dubai Police Criminal Investigaion Department succeeded in busting three gangs which were involved in three differed scams involving more than Dh6 million, a top Dubai Police official said.
In the first case, the Commercial Crimes Department succeeded in busting a gang of two Arab men who were trying to sell fake jewellery worth Dh6 million in Dubai.
Major Salah Juma, Director General of Dubai Police Commercial Crimes Department, said that in the beginning of this month, they recieved information which said two Arabs calimed they have precious stones worth Dh5.5m and were looking for buyers.
"Once we received this information, we formed a team to trace the gang. A team member claimed that he was a trader and he wanted to check the precious stones first. When our agent met them, they gave him three stones and claimed that these were very rare stones and were imported from South America," he said.
"Our agent showed them that he was amazed and happy. Then they asked him to pay Dh900,000 deposit in return of receiving the other stones the next day. The team members set up a trap in one of the hotels in Jumeirah, and on the date, they caught the gang red handed when they were trying to take the cash in return of the precious stones."
Maj Juma said that the second case took place at the same time. "An african claimed having $2m notes painted with a white chemical. He claimed that he wanted to purchase electrical machinery. He was looking for a partner who will help him by participating and buying a substance used to remove the which substance from the dollars. He promised to give 30 per cent of the money to the person who helped him."
A trap was set up and police arrested him and confisicated the dollars and found some fake IDs with him.
Maj Juma added that the third case also took place in the same period. "We received information which said an Asian had a fake credit card and he was looking for a person who will help him to withdraw the money in return for 25 per cent of the total value of the money.
An undercover agent met him and told him he owns a general trading firm and he can assist him to withdraw the money in return of 35 per cent. They agreed to meet near a shop in Deira to withdraw the money. "We set a trap and when they met, he showed our agent three fake credit cards. We arrested him red handed. During the investigation, he said that he got the fake credit cards from two Malaysian men. We set another trap and arrested the two Malaysian men in the same way.
"While searching them, we found seven fake credit cards," said Maj Juma adding that all the suspects were transfered to the Public Prosecution for further investigation.