A UAE national was surprised by an Asian worker looking for his name in the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs as his sponsor. .

“The person who applied for a visa for the worker was identified and an ambush was prepared and arrested to reveal that he was an intermediary in a gang of three others,” said Dr Ali Humaid bin Khatam, the first public defender and head of the Nationality and Residence Prosecution Attorney. For AED 5000 per visa ».

He added: «The gang uses photographs of citizens' identities, and falsified agencies by name to provide them to the facilities, and was able to bring 12 people in this criminal way».

He pointed out that the person arrested had admitted that he was acting as a mediator between those who wanted to come to the State and the other defendants who were in charge of issuing visas and provided his colleagues with a picture of the worker, his data and the amount requested.

Bin Khatam explained that the gang was paying unidentified others for providing them with photographs of citizens' identities. In the absence of the original identities, the members falsify official documents, which are agencies of identity holders, and provide them to Tas'heel staff. He denied that any of the employees were involved in these crimes, pointing out that they were conducting transactions according to the documents submitted to them, and according to the procedures, pointing out that the people who brought the names of UAE nationals, stressing the need to be careful during the conduct of this type of transactions and carefully scrutinize the documents submitted by names Citizens. The Public Prosecution directed the gang members to commit felonies for forging official documents and using them, and referred them to the Dubai Criminal Court to commence their trial.

Bin Khatam asserted that all such tricks and criminal methods are firmly confronted, the perpetrators uncovered and legal actions taken against them.

Bin Khatam confirms tackling such criminal tricks and methods, and exposing the perpetrators.