Dubai Criminal Court convicted them along with a third defendant

Two visitors try to travel to Europe with fake visas

Dubai Criminal Court confirmed the conviction of the 3 accused.

Photography: Patrick Castillo

Two (Arab) visitors tried to pass through Dubai Airport with two forged Schengen visas, and the civil aviation employee discovered the forgery. .

In the investigations of the Public Prosecution, the two accused denied their knowledge of visa fraud, noting that each of them paid the equivalent of 25 thousand dirhams in the currency of their countries, to obtain the two visas from an unknown person who convinced them to come to the UAE, confirm the two visas there, and leave them to Europe.

The investigations of the Public Prosecution confirmed that the defendants participated in forging an unofficial document, which is a "Schengen visa", and tried to use it to leave the country, and by checking the two visas, it was found that they were forged.

The first accused in the investigations said that he was on his way to leave the country through Dubai airport, and the competent employee stopped him to check his passport, and then informed him that the "Schengen" visa installed on the passport was forged.

He added that he did not know anything about visa fraud, and what happened was that he agreed with a person in his country to obtain it for him in exchange for the equivalent of 25 thousand dirhams in the currency of his country, and asked him to make an official power of attorney for a person in the Emirates to take out the visa for him, and then come to the country, to travel Of which.

He indicated that he had already come to the UAE and was received by the third accused in the case, and took him to more than one place of residence, then took his passport from him, and returned it to him a day before his scheduled travel date to one of the European countries with a "Schengen" visa, and while leaving the country he was arrested. It turned out that the visa was forged.

The second defendant in the case made similar statements, while the third defendant stated that he submitted to the state on a visit visa, and received a call from one of his friends asking him to receive the first and second defendants, rent a hotel for them, and receive an envelope from them containing their passports and hand it over to an unknown person, then hand them over the envelope again, denying Knowing about fraud.

The court stated in the merits of the ruling that it saw from the circumstances and circumstances of the case, that the first and second defendants did not resort to the correct procedures followed to obtain the visa, through the concerned authorities, but rather agreed with an unknown person to forge it and provided him with their data and photos, and then tried to use it to leave, had it not been for the acumen of a security officer. Aviation.

She indicated that she had seen the two forged visa photos, and it was found that they are valid for use and that the average person is deceived by them, which results in harm represented in the possibility of them leaving them, and then she reached the conviction of the three accused.

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