The Dubai criminal court has tried 17 defendants, including employees of a local bank, who have seized more than 20 million dirhams from fraudulent clients.

The Public Prosecutor's Office reported that its investigations revealed that the Public Relations Manager and six other staff of the Bank had leaked information about agents to other defendants who had used them to falsify identities on behalf of clients and submitted financial transfer requests from victims' accounts to the accounts of two of two other defendants , And then other defendants withdrew the money, and shared it among them.

The Public Prosecutor's Office directed the accused to commit felonies to leak confidential information, use forged documents, falsify electronic documents belonging to the bank, and other charges.

Six defendants were brought before the court yesterday, denying the charges against them, while others were tried in absentia on various charges, including the seizure of the property of others and forgery.

The deputy head of operations and audit of the bank, the discovery of crimes when a customer was surprised to transfer the amount of his account in the bank, without permission, and when he inquired why, the department sent him a copy of the transfer request, to inform them that the signature is forged, And submit the form.

Accordingly, the Bank began extensive audits, discovered that 10 other operations were carried out in the same way, forged documents were used, the funds were transferred to the account of two specific companies and an additional transfer was discovered after disclosing the course of the financial transactions associated with the two companies' accounts.

According to the Public Prosecution's investigation, the bank's employees involved in the incident received requests for remittances from other defendants, despite knowing that they contain forged documents, and signed the documents to be passed in the bank's system after their validity was adopted, in accordance with established procedures, causing damage to the funds. Others, and the interests of the party in which they work.

The sixth accused in the case, and the post of director of public relations in the wealth department of the bank, forgery and use of official editors, noting that he was appointed director of the management of the accounts of a number of clients, including one of the victims in the case, and attended by one of the accused request conversion on behalf of the victim, It was supposed to request the origin of the identity, and compared with the picture, but did not do so, but signed the picture, and proved the data contrary to the truth, according to his knowledge of the original, and later discovered that the remittances submitted false. Referring to the cameras, it was found that the defendant he had committed had committed the same crime several times, submitted forged transactions to other branches of the bank, executed them and seized amounts from the accounts of a number of clients.

A Dubai police witness reported that a complaint from the bank about a group of unidentified persons, requests for money transfers under forged documents, took over money from customers' accounts in the bank and turned them into two companies in another bank.

He added: By searching, checking and watching camera recordings, the defendant appeared, who made a number of requests. It was found that the accused used forged documents (photocopies of agencies to be issued to the notary public in the names of clients), extracted telephone chips instead of a lost name, and then used them to defraud the bank and to seize the money without the knowledge of the accountants who had been disconnected from the telephone service.

He pointed out that the bank discovered the crimes and was able to stop a number of other applications filed in several branches. The police arrested the first and second accused. The reason for the targeting of these accused was found to be accounts of dead persons.

- Bank employees involved have received remittance requests

External defendants, though

Inform them that they contain forged documents.