Arab swindled out of Dhs542,000

The Sharjah Police arrested two Africans on charges of swindling Dhs542,000 from an Arab, MRM after claiming to have the ability to double money.

According to the official records, MRM filed a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that he had been swindled by a group of Africans. Earlier, he met with one of them identified as AM, who claimed to have a trading company and was looking for a resident partner. The company representative met the victim in a hotel in a neighbouring emirate. He brought with him a handbag containing papers of different colours and chemicals that he mixed together changing the papers into foreign banknotes. Consequently, the victim was persuaded of the defendants’ ability to double money and decided to invest his money in this way. As a result, the defendants were able to take Dhs542,000 from him without anything in return.

In the light of the above, a CID team was formed to follow up the complaint. The team was able to communicate with the perpetrators and arrest them through a tight trap.

Upon interrogation, one of the defendants confessed to have swindled money from MRM, who he got acquainted with on a social media site and agreed to meet in his apartment in Sharjah for doubling his money.

Later, the team moved to the defendant’s apartment where they found packages of fake local and foreign currencies and a number of electronic devices used in counterfeiting money. The two defendants were arrested and referred to Sharjah Public Prosecution.

Recently, a  clerk claimed he had foreign currencies worth Dhs45m tainted with a substance that required a cleaning chemical.

He tried conning a Dubai Police officer out of Dhs12m.

The Arab defendant, 40, landed at the Dubai Criminal Court  for having forged dollar and Euro bills as samples to prove he had the currencies, according to records at Al Muraqqabat Police Station.

Besides forgery, prosecutors accused him of trying to swindle Dhs12 million belonging to Dubai Police after meeting the officer and telling him he had the huge quantity of dollar and Euro bills for sale at Dhs12 million.

He claimed the dollars and Euros worth Dhs45 million simply required a cleaning chemical and it was up to the buyer to also cover expenses of purchasing the chemical. The officer lured him into an ambush on April 22.