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6 people jailed in fake seals case
A 30-year-old Uzbek man, identified as R.M., has been sentenced to one year in prison for smuggling into the country 60 seals which are stamped purportedly by the police in both Abu Dhabi and Sharjah international airports on visas after the iris scan. The seals were fake.
The Court of First Instance also found R.M., who is on a business visa, guilty of using the fake seals.
Five other people, also Uzbek, including a woman, in the age group of 26-35 years, have also been sentenced to one year in prison each for possessing, hiding and using the seals while aware they were fake. A seventh Uzbek accused has been cleared of the same charges.
All convicted persons will be deported after serving their prison time.
The verdict can be appealed within 15 days.
A police captain said he arrested one of the accused and raided and searched the flats of other defendants, who were found in possession of the fake seals.
The police learnt from an informant that one of the defendants, 29-year-old J.C., possessed fake seals wrongfully attributed to the Ministry of Interior.
The informant, who knew J.C., promised to get him visas to stamp with the fake seals.
He met with him on February 20, 2012 and stamped the visas.
The police arrested J.C. shortly later and seized from him a bagful of seals similar to which was stamped on the informant’s visas.
The police then searched his flats and the places of his accomplices at Al Nahda in Al Qusais, Dubai and in Sharjah. More than 10 fake seals, stamped after the iris scan test is passed upon the arrival at the Sharjah airport, were seized from one flat. The seals had serial numbers. The police also seized passport and tourist visa copies.
The police also seized 50 more similar seals from the defendants.
A 51-year-old Uzbek woman, in whose flat some seals were found but who was not charged in the case, testified that she did not have anything to do with the seals. She claimed that the woman on trial had left a bag in her flat in Sharjah on February 21 last year. She did not know what was inside the bag and thought it contained the woman’s belongings.
mary@khaleejtimes.com
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