Woman in Dubai charged for offering Dh100,000 bribe to get bank loan

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Woman in Dubai charged for offering Dh100,000 bribe to get bank loan

Dubai - While she remains in detention, prosecutors have called for a strict penalty against her.

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Marie Nammour

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Published: Thu 25 Apr 2019, 11:04 PM

Last updated: Fri 26 Apr 2019, 10:24 AM

A businesswoman has been charged at a Dubai court after she allegedly offered a Dh100,000 bribe to a bank employee to obtain a Dh250,000 loan in another person's name.
The 34-year-old Pakistani woman was reported to Bur Dubai police after she approached the complainant with forged documents to avail of the loan.
Prosecutors accused her, together with a runaway accomplice, of forging copies of a passport and Emirates ID in the name of an Emirati woman. She used the forged papers when she filed the loan application form and filled in the bank account opening form. Other papers she forged included a salary certificate and a salary bank transfer certificate. She also issued a forged cheque, worth Dh100,000, in the name of the Emirati woman.
She has been charged at the Court of First Instance with offering a bribe to a public employee, attempted fraud, forgery of official documents and using them, criminal complicity in faking a public department's seal.
While she remains in detention, prosecutors have called for a strict penalty against her. The case dates back to and prior to June 24 last year.
The Pakistani bank employee, 28, said he reported the businesswoman to the administration after she offered him the bribe. "She used to work at a bank. She told me that a customer in Al Ain wants to apply for a loan and open an account. I advised her that the customer should visit the bank in person with the required papers. I told her that there is a branch of the bank there when she said that the customer can't come to Dubai."
The employee told the prosecutor that two weeks later, the businesswoman called him requesting his help. The bank employee told the defendant to give him some time. He then alerted the legal affairs department at the bank. "I was instructed to make the defendant believe that I accepted her offer."
When the defendant visited the bank carrying the forged papers and after she filled in the loan application forms, impersonating the other woman, she was arrested by the police. The trial has been postponed to April 29.
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