DUBAI // Two men who used a forged document to obtain Dh800,000 from a man after convincing him they owned an exchange house have been jailed for a year each.
The victim, Emirati M A, 46, met the defendants, Emirati M A, 33, and 31-year-old K H, a businessman from the Comoros Islands, at Bin Sougat Centre, on Airport Road, where they told him they owned an exchange house but wanted to sell it.
“I agreed with them to buy the house in return for Dh800,000. I paid them Dh500,000 in a cheque then, a few days later, the remaining Dh300,000, also in a cheque,” the victim said.
He said the two defendants gave him a letter from the Central Bank stating that it did not object to the sale of the exchange house. He later discovered the document was forged.
“When I made the discovery, I went to report them and found out that they had reported me to police for giving them a bad cheque,” said M A.
Two witnesses said that they were with the victim when he was handed the forged document by the defendants.
Prosecutors obtained a letter from the Central Bank stating that it did not issue any document relating to the sale of the exchange house mentioned in the case. At an earlier hearing defendant M A did not show up to face charges, while K H denied all charges.
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