A man has been convicted to five years’ imprisonment to be followed by deportation for selling to an Egyptian businessman fake property worth AED7.7 million, Gulf News reported.
The British man allegedly forged official documents and receipts of the said unit to scam the 43-year-old businessman. According to the victim, he met the agent at a real estate company and offered him hotel accommodations at an upcoming development near Burj Khalifa.
A man has been sentenced in absentia to five years in jail for forging official documents to scam a Dubai businessman of Dh7.7 million.
“We agreed to buy it for Dh7.7 million. I paid the money in three advance payments in 2015,” he said. “He claimed that the unit had been registered under my name and that the final contract would be given to me by the end of the project.”
He then went to the property company to ask about the unit he bought and showed them the receipts given by the defendant. The office told him the documents were fake and not issued by them. He headed to the defendant’s company, where he was told that he escaped from the country and had scammed other customers as well.
“The project was real, but the unit was fake,” Gulf News quoted him as saying.
The Dubai Court of First Instance has since sentenced the defendant to jail time and deportation, as well as fine worth AED7.7 million.
