RTA Dubai employee accused of forging driving licence

Dubai - A 28-year-old American citizen on a visit visa is accused of stealing the complainant's driving licence at night.

A Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) employee is accused of abusing his post to forge and use a forged e-document, in breach of the enforced regulations.
The 33-year-old Emirati man is accused at the Court of First Instance of taking advantage of his access privilege to log into the RTA's database and issue a replacement of a driving licence in the name of a man (without the latter's knowledge) and then handing it over to someone else (a Syrian salesman). The accused admitted during the investigation that he forged the e-document and used it.
He confessed that he logged on to the database of the RTA and applied for a replacement of a driving licence in the name of the complainant, breaching the regulations and then handing the driving licence to the salesman.
A 28-year-old American citizen on a visit visa is accused of stealing the complainant's driving licence at night.
The Syrian salesman, aged 35, is accused together with the RTA employee of aiding and abetting in the forgery.
The forgery allegedly took place from April 19 to May 18, last year and was reported to Al Barsha police.
A CID police lieutenant said: "The Syrian man was summoned for interrogation at 3.30pm on May 19, last year. He confessed that he met the visitor in a car showroom in Al Aweer and promised him he would get him a copy of the complainant's car registration card so to have a driving licence issued in the complainant's name". The visitor then sent him a copy of the complainant's driving licence by phone. The salesman helped the police arrest the RTA employee involved in the forgery.
"We arrested the employee red-handed while handing the replacement document of a driving licence to the salesman.
He admitted that he had done the same with other driving licences together with the salesman, without the knowledge or presence of the person, in whose name the document is issued. He did not say whether he collected any money for his unlawful doings," the lieutenant said.
The visitor denied having stolen any car's registration card. He claimed the card he had given to the salesman belonged to his friend. However, the police did not find any data pertaining to that friend. But they found out that the visitor had been previously deported.
The trial has been adjourned to October 30.
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