Two Asian and two fugitive delegates took advantage of a loophole on a government department website, renewed licenses without paying the full fees, and seized about six million dirhams for themselves, despite collecting them from the licensees, according to Dubai Public Prosecution investigations, which referred the defendants to a court. Felonies for fraud and seizure of government bonds in fraudulent ways.
In a separate case, the Dubai Public Prosecution accused an Arab man of hacking the department's website and copying confidential data in another case before the criminal court.
An official at the department said during his testimony regarding the first case, during the investigation of the Public Prosecution, that the defendants entered the website, exploiting a gap in it and manipulation in transactions that prevented the collection of fees estimated at six million dirhams.
He added that this manipulation was discovered through scrutiny of some transactions conducted by these delegates for the benefit of others, and was contacted later and reported that they are not aware of these transactions, and they were informed to pay the fees due to the Department or their activities would be frozen.
He pointed out that the defendants are registered with the special system of the Department, so they are allowed - according to the system - to conduct this kind of transactions, but they exploited a loophole to conduct without full payment of fees, pointing out that no legal action will be taken against the owners of beneficiaries of those abuses .
A witness from Dubai Police said that a report was received to the mabahith about some users of the Department's website to create accounts on the system, in order to renew electronic transactions, and to carry out a number of transactions without paying the full fees due. Programmed in the electronic system, it allowed them to carry out these transactions without any complicity from the employees of the Department.
He added that the defendants were tracked and two of them were arrested, while others are being tracked.It was found through research and investigation that they carried out these transactions and handed over the licenses to their owners, and collected the full fees of them, but they got the difference for themselves, and did not pay all the money to the department.
In addition, the Criminal Court started the trial of an Arab partner on charges of penetrating the Department's website. It was found through research, investigation and examination that the breach was through an electronic services link via the mobile phone number of the accused, in order to withdraw confidential data that no one can get unless Empowered.
The defendants took over the renewal of the licenses, and seized the fees owed to themselves.