Jail, fine, deportation over fake Tiktok video

DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced an Asian waiter to 6 months in jail and fined him Dhs5,000 over publishing an unreal “Tik Tok” video, which would undermine public order and cause panic in society. The convict would be deported ater serving the terms, the Court ordered.

The video clip, which was monitored by the authorities in the Emirate of Dubai, contained the sounds of gunfire and the screams of terrified people. It was posted by the convict on his “Tiktok” account.

Accordingly, he was identified, located and arrested. He admited to filming the video and mixing it with external sounds, through a filmmaking sotware that allows adding sounds and images. He further confessed to publishing it through his own Tiktok account, in order to increase the number of his followers.

WOMAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSING COCAINE: The Dubai Criminal Court looked into the case of an African female visitor, 45, who was charged with bringing and possessing 1,180 grammes of cocaine.

The case dates back to January 2021, when a Dubai Customs inspector suspected the suspect’s bag. He reportedly said that he asked the suspect whether there was any prohibition or material she wanted to disclose, but she said nothing was inside the baggage. When he opened the bag, he found 3 rolls at its botom. The Dubai Police Criminal Laboratory report showed that the seized materials contained 1,180 grammes of cocaine.

The court ordered that the suspect would stay in jail pending the case.

ASIAN BOOKED FOR FORGING IDENTITY CARD: The Dubai Public Prosecution referred a 31-year-old Asian visitor to the Criminal Court on charges of forging an identity card and using it to defraud a security guard to enter a site that was under construction.

The incident dates back to March 2021, when a security guard of the construction site suspected the ID card of a worker who wanted to enter the site. The guard reported that 6 people presented their ID cards but he suspected the ID card of one of them.

When he checked it through the Dubai Police system, it was found that it was expired and the data was changed. The guard reportedly informed the police that arrested the suspect.

A policeman testified that the suspect confessed that he used a fake ID card which he got from a friend to enter an under-construction site, as an electrician.

The court ordered his continued jailing pending the case.