Gang arrested for forgery, fraud

The Dubai Police Criminal Investigations Department has arrested a gang of six people involved in a series of forgeries and fraud cases.

The crimes came to light when an Asian, identified as S.E.A.S, tried to pose as an Arab and a client of a bank at the Empost office at Al Ramoul, the police said.

The office, finding his behaviour suspicious, contacted the original client and discovered that the Asian was impersonating him to get his credit card.

They reported the incident to the police and the suspect was arrested. A fake driving licence carrying his picture and the name of the victim was found on him.

During interrogation, he confessed that four more suspects provided him with the necessary fake documents to carry out the swindles.

Two suspects, S.M.F and Z.K.K, who were producing fake labour certificates, credit cards and other official documents, were later arrested with a laptop they used to forge the documents. A number of credit cards and salary certificates were also seized. They confessed that they had access to bank clients' details through A.A.B, an Asian who works at the bank, while they got fake salary certificates from two other suspects, A.A.M and R.K.K, who are also Asians.

On their arrest, a number of credit cards, copies of passports, stamps, bank statements from various banks and computers used in faking the documents were confiscated.

Col Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, head, Dubai Police CID, said the gang assigned different roles to themselves so that they would not attract any attention.