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Trial for ‘forging sponsor’s signature’

A woman clerk, who allegedly forged the signature of her sponsor to get her valid residence visa stamped on her renewed passport, has been charged with forgery in the Court of First Instance.

The 32-year-old Pakistani clerk is believed to have received a renewed passport issued for her from her country’s consulate here. She then approached the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs with a forged request for stamping her visa on the new passport.

She is accused of forging her employer’s signature to travel while her old passport was still with the company’s administration.

The Emirati sponsor, 43, denied in the investigation of having signed on any official documents pertaining to the accused.

He said that the accused got her visa stamped again on her new passport at the residency department behind his back in November last year. She sealed the request with the firm’s seal and his signature which she forged. A Palestinian partner confirmed the sponsor’s statement saying that the defendant travelled without her old and expired passport which was left with the firm. She forged the sponsor’s signature to file a request for her visa to be stamped on her new passport.

The accused admitted in the investigation that she forged her employer’s signature and sealed the request with the firm’s seal and he was unaware of what she did.

She said that she could do so as she worked as a PRO and used to keep the firm’s seals with her.

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