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Four Held in Fraudulent Money Transfer Case
DUBAI - Four persons, including three Asians and an American, were arrested recently for allegedly siphoning off money from a UAE-based foreign bank customer’s account.
Brigadier Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation, Dubai Police, said the suspects transferred 210,000 pounds from the customer’s account to another person’s account with a European bank.
The UAE-based bank informed the police after the transfer took place without the customer’s knowledge while he was abroad.
Major Abdul Rahman Obaid Al Nuaimi, Director of Anti-Economic Crimes Department, said that after receiving the complaint the department set up a team to follow up the transactions of the complainant’s account and managed to identify the person who had transferred the money.
The police arrested the first suspect, who works for the UAE-based bank, and the second suspect, a former employee of the bank.
According to police, the first suspect collaborated with the other suspects to use an account which had no more transactions and changed the phone number and mail address of the customer to facilitate the alleged crime.
The American suspect posed as the bank customer by sending a text message to the bank.
He ordered the bank to transfer money from the complainant’s account to his account in a European country. He later transferred the amount back to another account of his in Dubai.
The third suspect bought the phone SIM card that was used to send the message.
“After we received the complaint from the bank that the money of the victim was transferred from the American suspect’s account in the European country to his account in a Dubai–based bank, the American suspect was arrested in Sharjah on December 3 while other suspects were arrested in various areas in Dubai,” according to Al Nuaimi.
The police recovered from the first suspect’s car a laptop, five CDs, a flash memory stick and seven CD-Roms, a passport and photocopies of other people’s passports.
The police found the American suspect’s card, two blank cheques signed by the American suspect, and three bags containing equipment used in the forgery.
In a raid on the apartment of the second suspect, the police seized Dh194,300, a laptop, some bank documents and keys to three ATM machines belonging to the UAE-based bank, which had lodged the complaint.
All the arrested men were referred to the Dubai Public Prosecution on charges of fraud.
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