The Dubai Criminal Court has begun the trial of a gang of nine people led by a Gulf businessman, in addition to another Gulf and three Africans, Asians, Arab and European, for robbery after the impersonation of the police on three million dirhams from four investors, after being lured into a currency exchange deal Official.
The first victim (an Asian visitor) claimed that he came to the state to buy a quantity of gold through an Arab in partnership with three of his friends. He filmed the purse and sent a picture of someone who claimed to be the seller. Soon after, an African man came and left with the fake broker, and returned with another African with a suitcase that he claimed contained gold. Sitting together, three people who claimed to be police officers showed police identities to the victims, kept their phones, took their passports and money, and left the mediator with them, realizing that they had been victims of fraud.
A witness from the Dubai Police said that a report of a crime of robbery had been committed against four people, after being redeemed by someone to complete the exchange of dollars in dirhams, not to buy gold as these people claimed, pointing out that they brought three million dirhams, in the meantime attacked them The gang claimed to be policemen, took the money and fled.
The witness added that immediate action was taken and it was found that the villas do not have surveillance cameras. Continuing the search, the African suspects were arrested and they confessed to committing the incident by a Gulf defendant.
The European defendant stated that he was exploited in the incident by the mastermind, a Gulf businessman, pointing out that he was the victim of this gang that seized his money in a similar operation and involved him in that crime in order to return his money to him.