Dubai: Dubai Police arrested three men who allegedly forged the UAE residency visa on a passport to use it with other documents to get a Schengen visa, police said on Tuesday.
Major-General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said they received a call from the French Consulate after officials got suspicious about the residency visa belonging to an Asian man.
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“He applied to Schengen via the French consulate and provided a copy of his residency visa. The officials suspected his document and we set a trap and arrested him inside the visa centre,” Maj-Gen Al Mansouri said.
Colonel Salah Bu Osaiba, director of the Anti-Economic Crime Department of Dubai Police, said they arrested the first suspect and another person after the visa centre called them to come and collect their visa.
“He confessed that his relatives in his home country guided him to the third suspect who told him that he can get him a Schengen visa for €9,000,” Col Bu Osaiba said.
The second suspect meet him when the first suspect arrived at the airport and told him that he was working for the third suspect. He took away his passport and returned the passport with a forged UAE residency visa and other documents and asked him to apply through the visa centre.
“The second suspect confessed that he was working for the third suspect and that the residency visa was fake. We went to his flat and arrested the third suspect. We found two computers and a memory card used for the forgery,” Col Bu Osaiba added.
The suspects have been referred to the public prosecution after charging them with forgery.
