Dubai: A clerk has been jailed for three years for forging an Emirates ID and using it with another culprit to defraud a local bank of Dh1 million in cash and credit cards.
In November 2015, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted a Pakistani visitor and his countryman clerk of forging the Emirates ID and using it to apply for loans and credit cards and defrauding the bank.
The clerk was sentenced in absentia. He later surrendered and requested a retrial before the Court of First Instance.
On Sunday, the presiding judge sentenced the 22-year-old defendant to three years in jail although he had pleaded not guilty and contended that it was the visitor who committed the crime.
According to the primary judgement, the accused will be deported following the completion of his punishment.
The forged papers will be confiscated, according to Sunday’s judgement.
Court records said the visitor embezzled Dh480,000 in the form of a bank loan and a credit card and the 22-year-old accused embezzled around Dh490,000 in the form of a bank loan and a credit card as well.
A director of the bank testified that he reported the matter to the police after discovering that the defendants had provided them with forged documents when they applied for loans.
Sunday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
