DUBAI // A British legal adviser has been handed a three-month suspended sentence for forging a fake health club membership card for his fiancee.
The man, 33, denied a charge of forgery at Dubai Criminal Court in January.
“I’m not guilty and it was not my intention to use the card, nor did I forge it,” he told the judges. “I knew it was forged but I wasn’t going to use it.”
His fiancee was reported to police by a Nakheel building security guard on June 30 last year for using the fake membership card at the health club.
An Iraqi manager with Nakheel said: “The guard called me so I went to the club where I saw the woman. She said the defendant had given her the card and shortly after, he arrived.
“When I asked him about the card, he said he got it from a printing company and gave it as a gift to his fiancee but never thought she would use it.”
The legal adviser will be deported but he can appeal the sentence within 15 days.
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