Man fakes son’s death to avoid paying alimony

dubai — A man, who misled the authorities here after he falsely claimed that his son is dead, has been charged at the Dubai Court of First Instance.

Prosecutors are seeking a stiff penalty against the 34-year-old Syrian businessman after their findings showed that he had forged a certificate stating that his son passed away, and made it an official document by having it attested at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Syrian Embassy here. He tampered with the papers to avoid fulfilling his obligations as a father and pay alimony to his ex-wife, as decided by a Dubai Sharia Court order.

The man denied charges of forgery, use of forged document, and misleading the judicial system.

The case was exposed on July 16, last year and was registered at Al Rashidiya police station.

An Egyptian PRO, 30, said that the defendant filed an objection about an execution procedure before the Dubai Personal Status Court, to which he enclosed his son’s ‘death certificate’ on July 16, last year. “The court then ruled that his son’s custody case be dismissed. After the ruling was appealed, another court ruled in favour of the defendant’s exwife who presented her family’s registration papers to the Court of Appeals.”

The PRO added that an investigation was then launched after it became clear that the accused presented a fake death certificate of his son to avoid paying the alimony allocated by the Shariah Court to his exwife.

The PRO told the public prosecution investigator that the defendant had typed and printed a death certificate, which he attributed to the civil affairs department of the Ministry of Interior of the Syrian Republic in their offices in Lebanon.

The Dubai Police crime lab examined the certificate and concluded it is fake.

According to prosecution records, the businessman falsified the paper and attributed it to the Beirut office of the Syrian departments concerned.

The businessman will be sentenced on February 27.