Gang of Asians in the dock over misuse of identity cards

Ehab Atta, Staff Reporter

Five Asians formed a gang specialised in using identity cards for people residing in the country, some of them expired, to extract SIM cards in the name of others and then sell them.

Dubai Prosecution investigated the incident, whose details date back to August 2018, when the fifth suspect told his colleague who worked with him in one of the branches of a company selling SIM cards, that the first suspect asked him to extract SIM cards without complying with the regulations followed.

The first suspect told the other suspects he would bring ID cards of other people residing in the country, to register them by the fifth suspect, and then extract the SIM cards with their names.

Immediately, a friend of the fifth suspect reported the matter to the police, who set a trap to arrest the first and fifth suspects red-handed while delivering the identity cards.

The first suspect guided the police to the second, who guided them to the third, who also guided the police to the fourth suspect.

Earlier, in an unrelated incident, a 27-year-old Asian employee slaughtered his girlfriend after she refused to marry him. After the crime, he went to a restaurant and had lunch, then surrendered himself to Al Muraqqabat police station, and guided the police to the location of the body.

Details of the incident date back to July 2019, when a policeman at the Al Muraqqabat police station was surprised at the suspect entering with a wrapped hand in a piece cloth stained with blood.

He told the policeman, “I killed my girlfriend.”

The suspect told the policeman the details of the incident, so the policeman asked one of the police officers to take custody of the suspect, then he went to the car parking, opened the suspect’s car to find the victim’s body inside with marks of the slaughter on her neck.

The policeman also saw a knife in the back seat with traces of blood, so he call the Operations Room and informed them about the incident.