Investor forges 101 e-Ejari certificates

Dubai — An investor has gone on trial accused of forging forms in which he took up the responsibility for the authenticity of as many as 101 tenancy contracts, falsely attributed to Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera).

The 43-year-old Jordanian man is accused of distorting the facts in the applications he presented to an unaware employee of a company offering businessmen’s services. He allegedly falsified details in the said tenancy contracts registration applications. Accordingly, Ejari certificates were issued for the fake documents.

The investor has been charged in the Court of First Instance with fraudulently obtaining 101 Ejari letters for others. He denied in court charges of forgery, use of forged documents and fraud.

The case dates back to 2013 and a complaint was registered at Al Muraqqabat Police Station.

“On April 26, 2014, we received e-mails from the Dubai land department saying that after verifying the transactions

We received e-mails from the Dubai land department saying that they found that many fake tenancy contracts were attested despite being fake.” Jordanian marketing manager

processed by our company for attesting tenancy contracts in the e-Ejari, they found that many tenancy contracts were attested despite being fake,” said a Jordanian marketing manager.

“When we reviewed the records of the attestation of customers’ tenancy contracts, we found that 101 such contracts were fake but were still authenticated through our company’s branch in Deira.”

The units were not registered with them because they did not really exist. The documents that should have been presented upon registration of the tenancy contracts were not kept for the records.

As public prosecution evidence, 13 copies of the tenancy contracts — that were attested in e-Ejari and their Ejari certificates — were randomly selected and enclosed to the case file. The court is set to pronounce a ruling on November 5.

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