Asian sentenced to one year in jail for Dhs80,000 fraud in Dubai

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian, 42, to one year in jail to be followed by deportation on charges of forging official documents, impersonating a doctor working on a government entity and attempting to illegally obtain Dhs80,000 from a bank.

Investigations showed that the defendant impersonated a doctor and deliberately intended to meet a bank representative in doctors’ official white uniform in a bid to fraudulently obtain a Dhs80,000 credit card.

The case dated back to January 2020, when a bank employee discovered that the identity of a customer was forged and the rest of the documents were not authentic.

According to the official documents, the defendant applied for opening an account to obtain a credit card with a bank after submitting an ID card with his photo glued on it and a salary transfer certificate issued by a medical institution signifying that he was working as a doctor in it.