Woman goes on trial for forging salary certificate
dubai — A businesswoman has been charged at a Dubai court for allegedly helping an unidentified accomplice forge a salary certificate to get bank funding facilities.
According to the public prosecution, the 26-year-old Indian woman tried to fraudulently avail of bank facilities using a forged salary certificate she presented to a staff member.
But her attempted fraud was foiled after the staff exposed the forgery.
She has been charged at the Court of First Instance with aiding and abetting in forgery and use of forged document and attempted fraud. The case unfolded in 2016 and was registered at Bur Dubai police station.
An Emirati legal consultant of a renowned public firm said they received a phone call from the human resources section. “They said that an employee from a bank contacted them regarding a certificate submitted by a customer. As we verified and checked that document, we found it to be forged and not issued from the firm.
“It bore the details of a woman who did not work for us. The employee, who issued and signed the document, did not work for us either.”
The legal consultant then lodged a complaint at the police station. The Egyptian sales section
An employee from a bank contacted our HR section regarding a certificate submitted by a customer. As we checked the document, we found it to be forged and not issued from the firm.”
Legal consultant, public firm
manager at the bank said an employee approached him regarding the procedure of granting facilities to a customer.
“He said that he had received personal documents and a salary certificate from that customer, whom he did not trust. He added he was not willing to process the customer’s application.
“I agreed with the employee and told him to halt the transaction if he had doubts about the customer and the documents.”
The manager added that about two weeks later, two officers from the criminal investigation department came to the bank and interviewed the employee and the sales general manager.
A document — detailing the text messages and phone calls exchanged between the defendant and the bank employee — was presented by the public prosecution to the case file as part of evidence.
The trial will continue a month later, on July 2.