Couple referred to Misdemeanor court for GCC passport scam

Dubai Public Prosecution referred a husband and his wife to Misdemeanor court for illegally obtaining Dh725,000 from a man after deceiving him, claiming they can issue a GCC passport for him.

According to the investigations, it was found that the defendant had planned his crime since 2013, after he met the victim -of his same nationality- and offered to issue him a Gulf passport, taking advantage of the circumstances that his country is going through, claiming that he is close to the ruling family in that Gulf country. The defendant then requested several amounts of money up to 610,000 dirhams in cash. The victim then paid the first two checks -for 197,000 dirhams and 203,000 dirhams-. The accused wife was able to withdraw the cheques’ in cash.

After a year and a half of the victim’s requests for his money, the accused disappeared, authorities found that he had been deported from the country since 2002.