Security forces at Dubai Airport in the United Arab Emirates were able to arrest a person residing in the country with 4 other people. The resident promoted himself to them as an intermediary for obtaining visas to Europe, and convinced their families of his ability to provide residence visas for them, to travel and settle there, despite Because of their suspicion of the forged documents he brought them.
1000 euros for each visa
During the investigation with the defendants, it was found that the resident in the UAE persuaded the defendants to pay 1,000 euros for each visa. He was arrested while trying to travel through Dubai Airport, and they were referred to the Public Prosecution, and then to the Misdemeanor Court, on charges of participating in the use of forged documents.
The Emirati police were also able to arrest the private accused later, and they were transferred to the Public Prosecution, which in turn referred them to the court, which sentenced them to a period of one month and deported them to the state after the end of the prison term.
The accused works as an intermediary in forging entry visas to European countries
After investigating all the circumstances of the incident, it became clear to the Public Inquiry in the UAE that the accused was working as an intermediary in forging entry visas to European countries. The accused had become very famous among residents of the UAE of his nationality, in agreement with a number of those in European countries, and they agreed. Together they provided their relatives with false visas to facilitate their entry into Europe.
Fake visas to Italy
After the defendants paid the agreed upon sums of money, which were 1,000 euros for each visa, the defendant handed them their passports with a visa to Italy attached to them, and they were arrested while trying to travel inside Dubai Airport, where the security men inside the airport became suspicious of the documents they were in possession of, and the documents were transferred. Their documents were sent to the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Ports Security in the UAE, which proved that these documents and visas were forged.
Confronting the defendants that their travel visas were forged, the defendants admitted that the police’s allegations were true and that there was a person residing in the UAE of the same nationality as them who forged these documents, and that he convinced them that he was an intermediary for one of the private tourism companies to obtain entry visas to Italy in exchange for 1,000 euros per visa.
Convicting all participants in the crime
For its part, the court stated that all those involved in this crime are guilty because they initially agreed with the accused to travel with forged documents and visas through Dubai International Airport, in addition to the fact that they presented these forged cards to the immigration officer inside the airport, who in turn discovered that they were forged and unusable. The court also stated that all of the defendants were initially aware of the process of forging travel visas.
The accused were imprisoned for a month and deported from the UAE
The court explained that based on the circumstances of the incident, in addition to the behavior and past of the defendants, it became clear to it that it was possible for them to commit this act again, and then it ruled that they be deported from the country for the number of serving their prison sentence, which is one month.
The defendants tried to appeal the court's ruling at first instance before the Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates, but in the end they retracted it, after which the ruling against them was upheld.
