They exploited an electronic loophole and renewed commercial licenses without paying their full fees
3 years imprisonment for 3 accused of seizing 6 million dirhams
The Dubai Criminal Court has ruled a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 150,000 dirhams against three defendants, including a sales representative, who exploited a loophole on the website of a department, renewed licenses without fully paying the fees due in full, and seized six million dirhams for themselves, despite their collection from license holders, according to Investigations of the Dubai Public Prosecution, which charged them with forgery and fraudulent appropriation of third party funds.
An official with the department in the investigations of the Public Prosecution said that the defendants entered the website, exploiting a loophole in it and manipulated transactions that prevented the collection of fees estimated at six million dirhams.
He added that this manipulation was discovered by checking some of the transactions that were conducted through the defendants in the interest of others who were contacted later and reported that they were not aware of these transactions, and they were informed of payment of the fees owed to the department, otherwise their activities with it will be frozen.
He pointed out that among the defendants are sales representatives registered with the department's system, so they are allowed - according to the system - to conduct this type of transaction, but they took advantage of a loophole to conduct it without paying the full fees, pointing out that no legal measures will be taken against the owners of the entities. The recipient of those transgressions.
A Dubai police witness said that a report was received by the electronic investigation about the establishment of some users of the department's website accounts on the system, with the aim of renewing electronic transactions, and carrying out a number of transactions without paying the full fees due, so the department was transferred to the department and asked the specialized employees, and it turned out that there was a programmatic error. In the electronic system, it allowed them to carry out these transactions without any complicity from the department's employees.
He added that the defendants were tracked down and two of them were arrested, as well as a third was arrested later, and it was found through research and investigation that they carried out these transactions and handed over the licenses to their owners, and they collected the full value of the fees from them, but they got the difference for themselves, and did not pay all the money to the department.
• The defendants including two sales representatives registered with the system for renewing licenses.
• “Dubai Prosecution” indicted the defendants on two charges of forgery and fraudulent seizure of third party funds.
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