A man, who fraudulently availed of Dh129,375 ($35,218) worth of telecom provider services, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in jail by a Dubai court.
Public prosecution records show that the defendant, who is a fugitive, forged applications for 48 smartphones from March to December of 2017.
The Court of First Instance found him guilty of using previously filed applications, removing details and filling them again with new details.
Prosecutors levelled charges of forgery, use of forged documents and fraud against him.
The court ordered him to pay a Dh100,000 ($27,222) fine and deportation. The case was registered at the Bur Dubai police station.
An Indian employee, 34, who works in processing applications for the plaintiff, said the accused would file applications on behalf of businesses. "I would normally check out whether the necessary documents are within the applications and if they are signed by the applicants."
He told the prosecutor that the applicants would not be double-checked via phone calls, claiming he was unaware the defendant had forged the applications.
Another 28-year-old Indian employee, who also works for the plaintiff, said during the public prosecution investigation that the applications copies would be filed online. "The applications would be complete with the required documents. I would send them to the telecom provider to approve them."
He also stressed he did not know the defendant had used forged documents when filing the applications.
During police interrogation, the accused admitted he applied for smartphones at the telecom company using fake documents. He admitted he received the phones then disposed of them by sale to a third party. The forged papers were seized.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
