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Sohaila Ahmed, Staff Reporter

A 37-year-old Arab manager was arrested and referred to criminal court for forging documents to embezzle Dhs245,000 from a private company that deals in food supply in Dubai.

The incident dates back to last January, when the defendant impersonated a government employee and forged documents to buy supplies for Dhs200 per tonne, and offered food supply contracts to the Penal and Correctional Institutions of police departments of different Emirates.

A witness in the case testified that the defendant had visited his company and introduced himself as a procurement officer of a police department, then asked for a Dhs25,000 insurance money to issue an entry permit to the police department.

The defendant also offered food supply contracts for police’s penal and correctional institutions in return for a Dhs160,000 cheque.

He repeated the same scamming method with another victim company for an amount of Dhs60,000.

However, the defendant’s false promises of supplying food to the correctional institutions have made the companies victims of an embezzlement crime.

The victim companies eventually filed a scam report against the defendant, and he was successfully arrested by police.