Documents forged to get loan of Dh250,000

Awaiter has been accused of attempting to defraud a bank of Dh250,000 after he applied for a personal loan using forged papers, a court heard yesterday.

An Indian bank’s public relations officer was said to have been contacted by his 30-year-old countryman waiter, who wanted to apply for a personal loan of Dh250,000 in May.

Once the public relations officer told his boss about the waiter’s loan query, he was cautioned about dealing with the waiter, according to records.

The two men met in a mall in Al Karama, where the suspect provided the public relations officer with several papers and signed the bank application for a loan and a credit card. Police arrested the waiter after it was discovered that the papers submitted by him for processing the loan application were forged. Prosecutors accused the suspect of attempting to embezzle Dh250,000 from the bank by using forged papers.

Prosecutors said the suspect collaborated with two others, who remain at large, in forging a Dubai Municipality salary certificate, bank statement and a residency stamp to apply for the bank loan.

The suspect pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance.

The suspect argued before presiding judge Urfan Omar: “I did not forge any papers. The two runaways forged the documents. They handed me an envelope full of papers and asked me to give it to the bank’s representative.”