The head of the criminal laboratory in the Sharjah Police, Brigadier-General Ahmed Haji Al-Sarkal, confirmed that the criminal laboratory managed, during the past year, to solve several issues related to counterfeiting and forgery of checks and official documents, including four cases in which the perpetrators used innovative and difficult to detect, with the aim of carrying out fraud operations, Especially in commercial transactions or between ordinary individuals and companies, including the issue of two checks worth 30 million dirhams.
Al Serkal indicated that the laboratory gives its results and reports on fraud cases accurately, including examining checks, as it is possible to quickly determine the validity of the signature or not in cases, while other cases need a time exceeding 10 days to decide, as it requires great efforts of experts, and the use of With other parties to prove the validity of the signature, and to examine the previous signatures of the person, or that the owner of the signature is dead, forcing the expert to extract old papers with his signature to compare it.
He pointed out four important issues that the laboratory was able to solve using high standards and specifications, including a check worth 18 million dirhams, as it turned out that the signature was forged by transport using a professional broker, passing through the ordinary person and the bank employee, but after the suspicion of the check was examined and examined With custom devices, so it was known that it was counterfeit.
Al Serkal mentioned the case of forging a check worth 12 million dirhams, which was signed with the knowledge of its owner 10 years ago, as it was proven that the signature of the check was not contemporaneous to the data, and that the check was signed later on the basis of previous checks, noting that it was based on the development of the signature holder’s line Within 10 years, the use of optical and electronic equipment for forgery, and signature scans in the laboratory with the x-ray assigned to it, it turned out to be a fake.
And he showed that the laboratory was able to discover a false signature to acknowledge the assignment of property to the children and wife to deprive the mother of the inheritance, as the deceased signed a blank, and the document was used to write the assignment by his relatives, and after converting the document to the laboratory, forgery was discovered.
He added that the laboratory discovered counterfeiting a signature on a document in the lower half of it which was empty, and it was used to print a confirmation of receipt of financial sums, after which the document was printed at a later time for signing, and the forgery was known by the disappearance of written pressure, and the presence of traces showing that the document was exposed to the heat of a machine Transcription.