A man who went on a shopping spree with a forged credit card in May has confessed in court to forgery.
The 45-year-old Singaporean, identified as PT, started by forging a Chinese passport. He took out the picture of the original owner, identified as TH, and replaced it with his own.
The defendant then forged a Dubai Airport entry stamp on the passport. He also forged two credit cards, a Visa and a Mastercard, in the name of the original passport owner.
The two credit cards were issued by the UAE branch of an international bank.
After completing his set of forged documents, the defendant managed to buy items worth over Dh10,000.
When PT asked a shop assistant for a Dh400 phone card and told her to charge it to his credit card, the employee found out that there was something wrong with the card and took it to her manager, who in turn called the international credit card hotline and spoke to an employee there, the manager told prosecutors.
An employee at the Risk and Fraud Department of a local bank told prosecutors that he investigated the credit card in question upon receiving a report from the shop and it turned out to be fake.
The forensic evidence report confirmed that the passport and Dubai Airport entry stamp on page 17 were forged, as well as the two credit cards in the Chinese passport owner's name.
It also said that the picture on the Chinese passport matched the picture on an authentic Singaporean passport that belonged to the defendant.
The defendant confessed to presiding judge Abdul Majeed Al Nizami that he was guilty. The case was adjourned until July 27.
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