They contributed to the downfall of an international gang and the seizure of a "fake millionaire"
Citizens and residents help Dubai Police in major cases
Colonel Saeed Al Hajri: "The ease of communication with Dubai Police, and the confidentiality of the caller, encouraged participation in enhancing security."
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The Director of the Cyber Crime Department at the General Department of Criminal Investigations and Investigations in Dubai Police, Colonel Saeed Al Hajri, revealed that about 30,000 community members, belonging to 156 nationalities, have cooperated with Dubai Police by sharing important information, complaints and reports through the e-Crime platform. Over the past year.
He told "Emirates Today" that ordinary people helped the police to uncover various cyber crimes, including major cases, such as the "fox hunting" operation that brought down an international gang that carried out dozens of frauds, theft of bank cards, breaching accounts and stealing identities, and the outcome of its crimes exceeded 1.6. One billion dirhams.
The Deputy Director of the Cyber Crime Department at the General Investigation Department, Captain Abdullah Al Shehhi, confirmed that the e-Crime platform has become a window through which members of society actively participate in maintaining electronic security, pointing out that many violations of precautionary measures and restricting movement during the national sterilization program are due to Corona pandemic, recorded after receiving information from the public.
He added that the number of reports and information received on the e-Crime platform during last April alone exceeded 4000 reports.
In detail, Colonel Saeed Al Hajri said that there is a great response from community members to the platform, in light of the strategy of the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri, to activate the role of the public as a main partner in maintaining security and evaluating police services, noting that the ease of communication with Dubai Police And preserving the confidentiality of the caller through e-Crime, they had a great role in encouraging citizens and residents to actively and positively participate in enhancing electronic security in the emirate in particular, and the state in general.
He added that information received from community members contributed to seizing major cases, such as the "Hashbobi" gang, a fictitious businessman who boasted of his obscene wealth.
He said: “Thanks to information about his gang’s involvement in money laundering and electronic fraud, a search and investigation team has been formed to follow up on the members of the international gang, as they pose a threat to persons, companies and bank accounts.
They were arrested in a qualitative raid operation, to reveal the torrent of the crimes they committed, and the money they seized from hundreds of victims around the world, ”stressing that“ this operation reflects the importance of the information provided by members of the public, even if it is simple. ”
He stated that “those in charge of the platform from the Department for Combating Cybercrime receive every information, contact and report with all interest, and re-contact its owner, providing him with help and support if he needs to, or obtain more details to work on the information later, reveal its dimensions, and apprehend those involved in it, If it is related to a crime ».
He explained that “the goal of the Dubai Police from the platform is to facilitate communication with the public through the smart application or the website,” noting that “the high turnout of community members on the platform enhances its value and strengthens the relationship between the police and residents of Dubai and the Emirates, citizens and residents, as it exceeded Communications and communications 30 thousand reports during the past year, received from persons belonging to 156 nationalities ».
For his part, Captain Abdullah Al Shehhi said that community members were a blessing to the Dubai Police during the national sterilization program after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, as they contributed, through their reports and the videos that they provided to the platform, in arresting many violators, and assisting the concerned authorities in implementing preventive measures against the virus. Covid-19 ».
He added that members of the public have contributed to imposing a kind of discipline, through their rapid communication when spreading a rumor related to the pandemic situation in the country or the world, or spreading lies and false news, some of which are tucked into comments on true news published in an official body, pointing out that More than 4000 people contacted Dubai Police via "e-crime" in April alone, reflecting the sense of security and the wonderful role of community members in enhancing the security of their city and country.
He pointed out that the abstract figures reflect the audience's response to the platform, as the average of the reports that the Cyber Crime Prevention Department recorded before launching e-Crime was about 1,400 annual reports.
In the first year of its launch, the number of transactions and reports received through it exceeded 14 thousand transactions, stressing that it surpasses its counterpart of the US Federal Investigation Department in the diversity of communications and communications it receives, and the interest of Dubai Police in them.
Throwing money caught the workers
Captain Abdullah Al Shehhi said that the platform contributed to uncovering a number of prominent cases, such as: a person who was throwing euro banknotes at a workers' gathering in Al-Quoz Industrial Area, in an insulting scene.
He added: “Thanks to a report from a member of the community about the incident, which the owner of the money deliberately filmed with the help of other people, Dubai Police investigated him and seized him.
The surprise was that the money he used in the filmed scene was fake. ”
Al-Shehhi confirmed the arrest of the accused, and the person who supplied him with the counterfeit money, in addition to the person who photographed the incident, and referred them all to the Public Prosecution.
Rogue "fetch servants"
Captain Abdullah Al Shehhi revealed that a piece of information from a member of the public contributed to the arrest of a woman who used a social network to promote her work in bringing domestic workers. He was informed on the e-Crime platform that she was getting money from people in order to provide them with servants, and then she disavowed them after that. .
Al-Shehhi pointed out that information is being investigated and an ambush is set for women who have found that they are not working to bring in support workers officially, and that they used social media to defraud the public, so they were arrested.
He stressed that the simple information received from a member of the community, saved potential victims from the trap of fraud.
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A thousand people, of 156 nationalities, contacted e-Crime.
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