The discernment and professionalism of a UAE sergeant in the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, Dubai's air ports sector, contributed to the detection of a British passport fraud, carried by an Arab national, while leaving through Dubai airport, by simply touching the passport with his own hands, even though the defendant himself was able to obtain Entry visa to countries on the same passport, which means that the passport passed on an electronic reader of data previously, according to investigations by the Dubai Public Prosecution, which referred the accused to the Passport Court.
According to Sergeant WA 27, he was working at Dubai airport, checking passports of passengers wishing to leave the country. The defendant came and presented him with a British passport to end his exit from the country. Entry and visa is correct, but he did not rest for the texture of the passport, especially the data sheet, and felt that it is poor in its print and feel, and differs from the printing of British passports.
The sergeant decided to respond to his intuition and did not close the passport, but turned him to the documents examination center of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs at Dubai Airport, and found through the examination of fraud in the data page, was arrested immediately on the passport holder.
Asked about the type of visa that the defendant entered into the country and how to grant it, he said that by checking the defendant's data in the computer system of immigration and passports, it was revealed that he entered the state on the same passport, after he was granted a visa «upon arrival» granted to holders European passports, including the British passport, once they arrive in the country for the purpose of visiting or tourism.
According to the investigation, the passport that the witness discovered was falsified, was previously scanned, with a data reader, and his data was recorded in the device as a British citizen, and accordingly the traveler was granted an immediate electronic visa and not paper, but it was not as easy to exit, The process of counterfeiting of the passport was exposed as soon as it was touched by the passport officer.
The defendant in the Dubai Public Prosecution investigation admitted that he was in Malaysia, decided to go to the Netherlands to seek asylum, and coordinated with one of the smugglers in his country, the latter assured him that he can help him and provide a British passport can be used in any European country for 111 thousand euros. Upon upon arrival in the Netherlands.
The defendant agreed to the offer and sent to the smuggler personal photos to carry out the fraud, and the latter asked him to go to Malaysia as one of the countries that accept the entry of holders of Arab nationality, without a visa, then exits to the Netherlands via transit in Dubai, and upon arrival in Dubai airport will meet someone An Asian, in the transit area, will be handed over to the UK by the forged passport, then enter Dubai using the forged passport, deciding that he will obtain a visa upon arrival as a British citizen, and then stay in the UAE for two days, and leave with the same passport to the Netherlands.
The defendant added that he carried out the plan literally, and met the Asian person, and received the passport, and entered the state, and remained for two days, but when he came out collided with the passport officer who revealed the forgery of the passport, and was arrested, denying knowledge of the person from whom he received the passport, and the lack of information.
He explained that the Asian person is the one he knew at the airport, and after completing the investigation, the prosecution referred him to the Criminal Court on charges of falsifying and using an official editor.
- The electronic reader did not discover the process of forgery .. The accused entered the state with a valid visa.