Dubai: Two Asians on trial for illegally obtaining Dh35,000 from a victim

Dubai Public Prosecution referred two Asian suspects to Criminal Court for illegally obtaining Dh35,000 from a victim after forging a property document of apartments for rent.

Case details reveal that the victim was browsing an online website when he saw an announcement about apartments for rent in a new residential building in ​​Dubai. When he contacted the number listed in the advertisement, the first defendant replied and claimed that he works in a real estate office in the same building, and asked the victim to come to the building and showed him a number of apartments and agreed to rent an apartment worth Dh70,000 to the victim who offered Dh35,000 as a down payment.

The victim then met with the first and second accused, where the latter claimed to be the owner of the apartment and submitted forged papers stating his ownership of the apartment. Upon signing the contract, the victim was handed an apartment key, a receipt of the amount he paid, and a parking card.

However, when the victim arrived with his wife to the building, he was surprised that the parking card was not working. When he went to the apartment it turned out that the key doesn’t work either.

During the investigation, the two defendants admitted that they had fraudulently misled the victim by falsifying a property certificate for apartments that they did not own and offered to rent, stating that they receieved the amount and split it between them.