DUBAI // A Nigerian man who used forged passports to obtain Dh384,000 from a money exchange has been jailed for three years by the Criminal Court.
S A, 36, was convicted of the forgery of four passports with fake visa stamps, use of the forged documents and fraudulently obtaining the money from the Al Rostamani Exchange between February 2 and May 29 this year.
The man used the passports to pose as different people, but was caught when he failed to answer questions about which country the money was being transferred from.
“He came with another man and told me that a transfer had arrived in his name then gave me a passport from Guinea,” said M Q, 34, a Sri Lankan employee at Al Rostamani Exchange.
“I asked him where the transfer was coming from, he said the USA, but it had come from the Philippines. So I suspected him. But when I started asking him a few more questions he suddenly ran away.”
The defendant and his accomplice left behind the forged passport and were arrested minutes later by a police patrol.
Camera recordings from the exchange showed the defendant had visited three times before, where he had received money transfers.
He will be deported after serving his jail term.
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