Abu Dhabi: Four Arabs on trial for forging a 24 million dollar cheque

The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal received the case of four Arab nationals who are accused of forging a 24 million dollar cheque and issuing it to a state bank, the court will rule on October 9.

The defendants denied that they had forged the cheque, confirming that it had been handed over to them by a GCC national who had left the country, and that the signatures on the cheque were not theirs.

The third defendant explained that a GCC national handed over the cheque to the third suspect in the presence of the defendants in a cafe in Dubai for the purpose of investment, and as a guarantee of a deal between British and Australian institutions. After completing the transaction he received the cheque as a representative of the British company, and asked the first defendant to go with them to his cousin who works in a bank to check the validity of hte cheque.

“The employee was absent for an hour and we started to worry. Then he came back with four other staff members and Investigators who arrested us. Our purpose was to check the validity of the cheque and the possibility of opening an account, not to be accused of forging it” stated the third defendant.