The Court of Appeal in Dubai upheld a ruling issued by a court of first instance convicting a woman of Asian nationality, who fraudulently seized 1.166 million dirhams from an Arab man, but it canceled the two-year prison sentence against her and deportation from the country, and contented herself with the fine, while the case was referred to the civil court in Dubai. Which ruled obligating her to pay the amount she seized to the plaintiff.
The details of the case revealed that the accused convinced the man of a profitable deal, and pushed him to enter into a partnership with her in a “massage” shop, then she deluded him after he entered that there were accumulated violations at the shop, and he would be thrown in prison and banned from entering the country if he did not pay the value of these violations. She used the names of unreal police officers to intimidate him, and even sent him fabricated text messages that she attributed to police stations, which led to him being deceived and depleting all his savings that he had accumulated over the course of 20 years.
The Civil Court stated in the merits of its ruling that what is established is that the defendant seized the amount of one million and 166 thousand dirhams belonging to the victim, using a fraudulent method. She indicated that the plaintiff suffered material damage as a result of her action, represented by being deprived of the benefit of this amount, and material damage in the grief, agony, and grief he suffered due to the embezzlement of his money.
According to the details of the criminal case, the accused sought to achieve quick wealth through illegal means, by defrauding people wishing to invest in commercial shops, and she deluded the victim that there was a profitable deal by entering into a partnership in a “massage” shop, and specified for him a certain amount. He agreed and entered into the project.
The lawsuit papers indicated that he transferred the required amount, but she was not satisfied with that, but began to drain him financially, by making him believe that there were violations arranged at the store, and she threatened him with her relations with policemen whose names she invented from imagination, and she even fabricated text messages that she attributed to the centers, to push him to He paid the violations, until the total amounts he transferred from his account to her account reached one million 166 thousand and 487 dirhams.
The accusation was not satisfied with that, but it continued its attempts with him, until he felt that it was exhausting him, and he inquired from the police station about the truth of the violations and presented the letters that he had received from them. He was shocked that they were artificial and that no letters had been issued by the police stations in this regard, so he became certain that he had been subjected to a fraud and the accused was arrested. .
The victim said in the Public Prosecution’s investigations that the accused drained him of all his financial savings that he had accumulated over the course of 20 years, and showed him letters attributed to police officers, pointing out that she first lured him into the partnership in exchange for an amount of 20 thousand dirhams only, then she put psychological pressure on him, and threatened him that… The violations would cause him to be removed from the state, so he resorted to a lawyer to end the violations and cases that were alleged to exist in the store, and he discovered that he was a victim of fraud, so he asked her to return his money, and she acknowledged seizing the amount and wrote him a document stating that she had received one million and 166 thousand dirhams from him, and he attached this document – with evidence. Other – with a report filed at the police station.
When the accused was questioned in the police evidence report, the Public Prosecution’s investigations, and during the trial, she maintained her denial and denied her connection to the incident. The Misdemeanor Court of First Instance concluded by convicting her and ruling that she be imprisoned for two years and deported from the state, in addition to a fine.
In turn, the accused appealed to the Criminal Court of Appeal, which upheld the conviction, but reduced the penalty to a fine only. The case was accordingly referred to the civil court, which ruled that she be obligated to pay the seized amount and a 5% fine from the date the judgment became final until payment.
. The Court of Appeal overturned the imprisonment and deportation and punished her with a fine.
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