DUBAI: A bank salesman and his friend allegedly defrauded his workplace of Dh635,000 after submitting forged documents needed to obtain a loan and a credit card. The 28-year-old Indian salesman is believed to have helped a runaway Pakistani, 37, to open a bank account and get a credit card after presenting a fake salary certificate. The duo also forged a statement of account, which they falsely claimed to be issued from another bank. They also forged a residency visa copy. They have been charged with fraud and forgery in the Court of First Instance. The salesman pleaded not guilty to the charges in court. The case dates back to April 2016, and a complaint was filed at Al Muraqqabat police station. A 43-year-old manager at the bank said the Indian defendant worked as a salesman for them.
“The salesman approved and signed a Dh485,000 loan and a credit card with a Dh150,000 balance in April last year. Soon after the procedure related to those applications was done, the runaway collected the credit card and the loan money. As a routine procedure, we went through the documents he had presented and contacted the parties to whom he attributed those documents. We learned they did not issue them and they had nothing to do with the Pakistani man,” the manager told the prosecutor. “When we summoned our employee and asked him about the other man, he hesitated in giving clear answers. “We lodged a complaint against both of them as we believed the salesman had conspired with the runaway. We could not get hold of the other man and it turned out he used all the credit card balance and withdrew the whole loan amount.” A letter from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners’ Affairs in Abu Dhabi said the residence visa used by the accused was forged. A criminal evidence report (Abu Dhabi) showed the applications to get the credit card and the loan bore the handwriting of the salesman. The fake documents used by the defendants were enclosed to the case file.
