Car broker manipulates women's feelings and seizes millions of dirhams

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Dubai Police arrested an Arab car broker on charges of involvement in fraud, appropriation of others' money and forgery, by manipulating the market value of cars and selling them at more than their value, exploiting his great ability to persuade, claim wealth, impersonate a European, and emotionally manipulate his female victims to collect millions of dirhams by these means It also caught three other people who helped him in his crimes, playing different roles, including forging car documents, and passing their financing transactions through a bank at a value higher than their real price.

Assistant Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansoori, said that the team at Al Rashidiya Police Station tracked down the fraudster and succeeded in arresting him, pointing to the need for individuals to pay attention to such practices when buying cars and make sure of their true value and not sign any papers before Verify their authenticity, pointing out that the accused inflicted victims of both sexes and manipulated their minds to the point of not scrutinizing what he says or what documents he provides to them.

He added that the work team faced challenges in dealing with the reports received against the accused because the victims were convinced of the offers he made to them and signed the purchase contracts without ascertaining the real value of the vehicles due to their excessive confidence in it, and they discovered months later that they were vulnerable to fraud.

For his part, the acting director of the Rashidiya Center, Colonel Muhammad bin Majid Al-Marri, stated that the accused used a code name to entrap his victims and claimed that he had a European nationality so that the victims could trust him.

He added that the center received several reports against the accused, so a working team was formed that undertook the search, investigation and gathering of evidence, and concluded that there were three other men who participated in the implementation of the crimes, and the necessary measures were taken against them and referred all of them to the Public Prosecution in Dubai to take legal action against them.

For his part, the head of the Criminal Records Department at Al Rashidiya Police Station, Colonel Abdul Rahman Al Habtoor, confirmed that the accused has the ability to persuade, and has been emotionally manipulating his female victims by accompanying them to parties in luxury cars to accuse them of his wealth, pointing out that he was able to collect millions of dirhams with these fraudulent methods .

He added that the first case of fraud was a woman who had mediated the purchase of a vehicle, so she trusted him and signed a murabaha contract for 153,000 dirhams, while the real market value of the vehicle is about 42,000 dirhams, to seize a value difference for himself, and an additional 27,000 dirhams were embezzled from her to complete The Murabahah process as claimed.

He added that the accused defrauded another woman after he dropped her in his window, attached her emotionally, and persuaded her to sell her luxury vehicle to someone for 240,000 dirhams without her knowledge or presence and seized the money for himself.

Al Habtoor pointed out that the third victim was a wealthy person who met him at an exhibition, and persuaded him to sell his luxury car and buy new ones, sold the car and seized its price, pointing out that he had seized 296,000 dirhams from a fourth person in the form of a loan in exchange for mortgaging his luxury vehicle, and issued the victim a check for the amount 525 thousand dirhams as security, and he promised him a luxury car and did not fulfill his promise, and it turned out that the check account was closed.

He pointed out that the fifth victim was a European woman who sold her a vehicle, and persuaded her to sign a murabaha contract and checks worth 187,000 dirhams, and he seized 12,000 dirhams from her to complete the murabaha process, but after a while she discovered that the insurance receipt was forged and the vehicle was not insured.

As for the sixth victim, a European woman who sold her a vehicle, and after a while she discovered that she had signed a sale contract, checks for 209,000 dirhams, contrary to what had been agreed upon, and that she had been deceived.

Al Habtoor explained that after recording these reports, the accused was tracked down and it was found that he was a fraudulent professional, relying on this on his cheerful personality and persuasive manner of trapping his victims, both women and men, especially since he used to transport luxury cars to lure them and provide them with brokerage services to sell cars to them.

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