Businessman, 82, jailed by Dubai court for forging licence

DUBAI // An 82-year-old man will spend three months in jail for altering a business licence and omitting his partner’s name.

On June 15 last year and before then the Emirati businessman changed the status on a license issued by Dubai’s Department of Economic Development from a limited liability company to an individual company and removed his partner’s name from the document before submitting it to the municipality.

His 47-year-old Emirati partner told the Dubai Criminal Court he owned 25 per cent of a printing firm in Al Garhoud and 25 per cent of all the real estate units and land plots that were granted by the government to the printing house.

“I became partner in 2005 but I found out about the forgery nearly two years ago,” he said.

The defendant denied charges of forgery and use of forged document in court last April.

However, he was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail.