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DUBAI: An African visitor used an old trick to swindle a GCC citizen out of $50,000. He gave the GCC citizen the impression that he had a large amount of US dollars that he intended to invest in the UAE but needed a certain chemical to remove the seals on the money.
According to the case which the Dubai Criminal Court heard on Monday, the victim met the defendant in Iran where he was offered an oil project in Al Ahwaz and Basra.
As they met the victim in the UAE, the defendant and another man, allegedly his son, claimed they had $2 million retained for a shipment at Dubai Customs and was to be invested after being released.
Several days later, the accused told the victim the money was released but there was a small obstacle: the money bore the seals of a bank in an African country.
The defendant told the victim that he needed a sum of money to buy a chemical to remove the said seals and showed him some forged banknotes of $100 denominations with seals that the defendant and his alleged son were able to remove by the needed chemical. Soon after he handed $50,000 over to the defendant and his son, the GCC citizen discovered that he fell victim to fraudulent practices.
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