They paid 80,000 dirhams to a man and his son for fake tickets

Two Asians are a victim of a dream to travel to Canada

The Dubai Criminal Court has begun the trial of a man and his son (Asians) on charges of seizing 80 thousand dirhams by defrauding two Asian people who were lured by a gang from their countries to Dubai after accusing them of their ability to obtain work visas for them in Canada. The victims were to surrender money and passports, and were later surprised that they had fallen victim to a fraudulent operation.

The first victim in the investigations of the Public Prosecution said that while he was in his country with his colleague, they were defrauded by a professional gang, as a person from Canada contacted him and deluded them that he could obtain a work visa for them in Canada, then he asked them to go to Dubai because travel is easier than it is.

Upon their arrival in Dubai last January, the same person contacted them via WhatsApp and asked them to go to one of the centers to hand over their passports. The first accused (father) met them after about a week and took documents and a thousand dollars from them, and within 10 days he was sent to them via WhatsApp. Copies of the two passports with a Canadian work visa affixed to them, and he asked them for the required money, so they met him and the second defendant (his son) and handed him the remaining amount, bringing the total to about 40,000 dirhams from each person.

The victim indicated that they later received a copy of the tickets to Canada and went with his friend to Dubai Airport to travel on the specified date, but by checking the tickets it was found that they were forged, so he wrote to him and told him that, so he sent them other tickets that turned out to be forged also, then he told them that they must pay Another 25,000 dirhams for sending in valid travel tickets, and they realized they had fallen victim to a fraud.

For his part, the first accused (the father) denied knowledge of any of the details of the fraud, indicating that his role was limited to receiving cash from the two victims and delivering it to another fugitive person for 300 dirhams, and the second accused (the son) denied his relationship to the crime, indicating that he attended the operation Receive cash with his father without realizing that he is involved in a fraud.

In addition, the defense attorney for the defendants, Lawyer Badr Abdullah Khamis, urged the invalidity of the evidence recorded in the phone of one of the victims because it was secretly and without the consent of the defendants, in addition to the invalidity of their statements before the arrest warrant, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 40 and 68 of the Criminal Procedure Law, in addition to the absence of the elements of the crime Seizing the money of others against the accused with its material and moral pillars.

A gang lured the victims from their country to Dubai with the message "WhatsApp".

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