Fake Dubai Courts PRO dupes woman of Dh185,500

I had to pay him Dh45,000 for a fine, which he told me my husband was ordered to pay. I also paid him Dh30,000 for my visa.”

Complainant

dubai — A man has been charged at a Dubai court after he allegedly defrauded an Indian housewife of Dh185,500, by falsely claiming to her that he finalised transactions at the Public Prosecution and the Dubai Courts.

Public prosecution records show that the 33-year-old Pakistani salesman collected amounts of money from the victim on several occasions and then showed her a forged receipt that the money was paid at the courts. He lied to her that he could reduce the jail term that her husband — who had been embroiled in bad cheque cases — was facing to the mere payment of a fine.

For the case that dates back to January last year, the defendant is facing at the Court of First Instance charges of fraud, forgery and use of forged documents.

To support his allegations and make the victim pay, the defendant told her that his business partner is a judge and that the latter is the brother of a top police official.

The Indian housewife, 50, said the defendant first approached her in January last year when she was outside the Dubai Courts. “When he heard from me that my husband is jailed in connection with many bounced cheque cases, he claimed he could be helpful as he is a PRO and would finalise transactions in this regard. In the meantime, my husband got bailed out.”

She recounted how she paid the accused Dh55,000 a few days later to settle a fine on behalf of her husband at the Dubai

Courts. “He gave me a receipt for that payment. I paid him Dh25,000 later to pay up another fine for my husband in another bad cheque case,” the victim recalled.

It was a similar scenario when she paid the defendant Dh30,000, on another occasion, for a labour case her husband was involved in. “He showed me a receipt that the said amount was paid. A few days later, I had to pay him Dh45,000 worth of a fine, which he told me my husband was ordered to pay. I also paid him another Dh30,000 to stamp my visa, which he did not do,” she said.

The complainant told the prosecutor that she paid the accused other amounts and only stopped when she learned at the courts that no amount was settled by the defendant on their behalf. “We lodged a complaint at the police station against him and then we were told that he had duped others in the same way,” the complainant said.

A letter from the Dubai Courts showed that the receipt, presented by the defendant to the complainant, was forged.

The letter also said no amount of money was settled on behalf of the complainant by the defendant.

One of the receipts he showed her was to bail another accused out, and not her husband.

A verdict will be released on January 29.