Dubai: A 32-year-old man who claimed to be a student has been jailed for three months for using someone else’s Emirates ID while police were questioning him following his arrest for staying in the country illegally since 2004.
Police officers apprehended the Russian and took him in to the police station for questioning in March.
The accused told the interrogating officer that he was someone who turned out to have left the UAE seven months ago.
When the officer confronted the suspect with the findings, the 32-year-old said he had impersonated another person by using his Emirates ID.
On Sunday, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the defendant of using someone else Emirates ID and giving false details about his identification during an official police inquiry.
The accused had pleaded guilty and admitted before presiding judge Ahmad Mohammad that he used the Emirates ID of another Russian person during the interrogation.
According to the primary ruling, the defendant will be deported following the completion of his jail term.
A police lieutenant testified that the Russian student had been brought to a police station in March.
“Upon asking him for his identification papers, he handed us an Emirates ID that had a name of a Kyrgyz national. Upon checking on the police system, it was discovered that the Kyrgyz had left the country seven months earlier. I summoned the accused for further interrogations, and he confessed that he had impersonated the Kyrgyz because he had been staying illegally in the UAE since 2004,” the lieutenant testified.
The defendant admitted to prosecutors that he used the Kyrgyz’s Emirates ID because he had flouted the Entry and Residency Law.
The Naturalisation and Residency Misdemeanours Court convicted the 32-year-old of staying in the country illegally and fined him, said court records.
Sunday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
