The Dubai Misdemeanor Court has begun the trial of three Europeans, including a father and his son, on charges of defrauding 13 companies and obtaining products worth more than eight million dirhams, after publishing ads in a newspaper stating that the companies of the accused have obtained contracts worth hundreds of millions, and they need suppliers of different products. To subcontract them.
The Public Prosecution investigations stated that the three defendants rented offices, warehouses, and workers, and stored the products they obtained from the victims' companies, which amounted to more than eight million dirhams, according to a prior agreement, and signed it according to the published announcement.
Two of the accused appeared before the court, while the third accused did not appear to have fled, to be tried for fraudulently seizing the money.
While the trial of one of them began with the charge of writing checks without a balance of six million and 400 thousand dirhams for the victims, a charge that the accused denied.
For her part, the defense attorney for the accused, lawyer Awatef Mohamed, said that her client did not write any checks for the victims, based on the testimony of a number of them, requesting that a number of them be called to testify, confirming that her client was not part of the fraud, and she has witnesses to that.
According to the investigations of the Public Prosecution, the owners of the victims' companies issued notices in October, after signing agreements with the defendants, and they received goods in return for checks, which later turned out to be without balance, and after they learned that one of the defendants had escaped.
A director of one of the victim's companies stated that he had seen advertisements in a local newspaper, which were issued in the English language, stating that a company owned by two of the defendants needed several products, in light of their association with huge contracts, pointing out that he had met two of the accused, father and son, in an office in the Dubai Investment Park He then supplied various equipment for them at a value of 536,000 dirhams, and received checks for the amounts, which later turned out to be returnable, and he was unable to cash them.
Another victim said that he provided the companies of the accused with a carpet worth four million dirhams, and met the same fate, as did a company specialized in the trade of ceramics with products worth one million and 400 thousand dirhams.
A third victim confirmed that he called the phones in the published advertisements, met the accused and provided them with plastic materials worth 819,000 dirhams, and noticed that the checks were being written by the fugitive accused now, pointing out that the defendants ’offices and warehouses were teeming with movement while supplying the goods, but they stopped completely after seizing them On those products.
The court decided to postpone the consideration of the case to the next April 20 session.