He "caught" him from inside a famous store and deluded him with a tempting deal

A fraudster seizes 400,000 dirhams from a visitor with a “photo of a watch”

• Badr Abdullah Khamis: "The accused took advantage of the victim's passion for the displayed watches and his keenness to check their types and prices."

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An Arab resident "fugitive" lured a European visitor to his window and defrauded him with an elaborate trick and seized 400,000 dirhams, after he met him by chance in a famous store specialized in selling luxury watches and deluded him that he was an employee in the store, and claimed that he was aware of the date of offering huge discounts, and exchanged with him the phone and mail. Then he contacted him later and showed him pictures of watches supposed to have discounts, so the victim transferred him from his country about 126,000 euros, only to discover later that he was a victim of fraud at the hands of someone he considered his friend one day.

Investigations by the Public Prosecution Office in Dubai revealed that the fugitive accused received the money through a bank account belonging to his living partner, a “second defendant” in the case.

In detail, the legal representative of the victim, Lawyer Badr Abdullah Khamis, said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution and before the court, that his client is passionate about acquiring precious watches, and frequents places to sell them in major commercial centers, and his bad luck led him to meet the first accused by chance in a famous trading store Luxury watches in a large mall.

He added that the accused noticed his client's interest in the offered watches and his keenness to check their types and prices, so he approached him and whispered to him that he works in this institution, and that it is in the process of making huge discounts on watches at a rate of no less than 20%, so the victim was excited, of course, and expressed his desire to take advantage of these offers He gave him his phone number and e-mail.

Khamis indicated that the fraudster contacted his client later and sent him a set of pictures of the watches, deliberately choosing the types that aroused the passion of the victim previously. It belongs to the famous institution.

He explained that investigations later proved that this account belonged to a person from an Arab country, and it was found that he was living with the first accused, and the latter informed him that he was a real estate broker and did not have an account and needed to receive money on his bank account. The account holder was arrested while the fraudster fled abroad after seizing the money.

The Public Prosecution charged the accused with committing a felony of fraudulently seizing movable money, and taking an incorrect capacity, while the second accused of possessing movable money in circumstances that lead to the belief of its illegality.

After examining the case, the Criminal Court confirmed that it was satisfied with the validity of the accusations against the accused, noting that it had settled in its certainty based on what it had extracted from all the papers and investigations and what was discussed in the court session that the victim’s misfortune had taken his leg to the accused who had been defrauding him and playing a chord. His passion for buying these watches.

She also established in her certainty the correctness of what was stated against the second accused, who allowed the first to receive money on his bank account and handed him his bank card and its password to facilitate the withdrawal of the amounts transferred to him without the need to accompany him, which would have deceived the victim and made him transfer the money successively, without That the second accused know the legality of the source of those sums.

It ruled that the fraudster be imprisoned for six months and a fine of 400,000 dirhams, and the second fined 3,000 dirhams.

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