Saturday: 10 July 2010:
they can double monies for buying real estate
ADP has arrested two men, from Cameroon and Nigeria while trying to defraud a UAE citizen, the owner of a real estate office in Abu Dhabi. They claimed that they could double money with “magic water” and transform pieces of black papers of the same size as US dollar bills into that currency. They wanted to buy snd invest in real estate worth millions of dollars in the country.
Upon receiving the report the ADP Criminal Investigation Department (CID) set up a plan devised by Colonel (Dr.) Rashid Mohammad Bu Rasheed, Head Organized Crime Section and executed by CID officers. They arranged to meet the men, and were then were arrested and their suitcase which contained a metal safe was seized. The safe contained plain black papers the size of currency bills, and powdered white medical cotton which was analyzed and found out to be white flour, used by the suspects to delude the victim into thinking it could transform papers into US dollars.
Colonel Bu Rasheed said "The dream of the two suspects (A. S. N., 43 from Cameroon, and M. J. S., 35 from Nigeria) vanished into thin air as soon as arrested by ADP, an example to others that may have thoughts about violating the law".
Both suspects confessed that they had entered the country as visitors, and became violators of residency law due to financial hardship.
Colonel Bu Rasheed urged community members to stay alert against such fraud attempts. He also called on the public to cooperate wit the police by reporting such acts.
The Federal Law punishes with jail sentence of not more than two years or with a fine of not more than Dh 20,000. In case the offence is repeated, the offender may be given a jail sentence of one year and more.