Three put behind bars for impersonating policemen

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

A GCC national connived with two Asians to steal more than Dhs200,000 from an Asian worker after impersonating policemen. The suspects assaulted the victim while he was at a bus station and fled in a vehicle. The victim filed a report and the suspects were arrested and referred to the Court of First Instance where they were sentenced to one year in jail and the deportation of the Asians.

The appellate court upheld the verdict. Details date back to January 2021, when an Asian filed a complaint alerting that he was robbed while he was in a bus station in Al Quoz in Dubai.

According to the victim in interrogations, while he was at a bus station, a black vehicle stopped, and GCC national told him he was an investigation personnel and asked for his money. When the victim asked him to show his military card and why he wanted his money, the suspect slapped him on the face. The other two suspects assisted him in the theft of a plastic bag with contained more than Dhs200,000 and Saudi riyal which he was tasked to deliver to workers in his country.

According to the case papers, the police identified the GCC national after identifying the vehicle numbers used in the theft. It turned out that it was owned by the sister of the suspect who said her brother sometimes used it. He was arrested and confessed to the crime. He guided the police to the other suspects who confessed to the crime.

Separately, a man from an Eastern European country, 60, stole his wife’s share in an apartment they owned after forging her signature and the ratifications by official authorities and his country’s consulate on a power of attorney granting him the right to sell her share.

The Dubai Public Prosecution referred the accused in absentia to the Criminal Court, which heard the first session of the case.

The case dated back to a complaint lodged by a woman with the police in which she stated that her husband had seized her share in an apartment they owned equally in the Palm Jumeirah area in Dubai. According to her statement in the investigations, her husband forged her signature and the seals of his country’s consulate for the apartment to be fully owned by him.

A witness for the prosecution in the case stated that a lawyer she checked with the Lands Department and discovered that the apartment was re-registered in the name of the accused under a legal gift power of attorney that proves that the accused is the only owner of the apartment.

After checking with the consulate of the defendant’s country, it was found that the power of attorney had been forged and that all the existing seals and the complainant’s signature were false.