GCC national gets 12 years in jail for Dh5 million bank fraud

Abu Dhabi: A man has been jailed for five years after forging official documents and passports to open fictitious bank accounts, the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court has announced on Saturday.

The defendant, a GCC national, committed the crime with the help of three employees at the bank, who were sentenced to a year in prison and will be deported.

The suspect was also sentenced to an additional seven years in prison, which were issued previously against him, after stealing Dh5 million using one of the fabricated accounts created by him at one of the capital’s banks.