A car broker manipulates women’s feelings and seizes millions of dirhams

Dubai Police arrested an (Arab) car broker on charges of engaging in fraud, seizing others’ money, and forgery, by manipulating the market value of cars and selling them for more than their value, taking advantage of his great ability to persuade, claiming wealth, impersonating a European nationality, and emotionally manipulating his female victims to collect millions of dirhams by these means. They also arrested three other people who helped him in his crimes, by playing various roles, including forging car documents and passing financing transactions through a bank at a value higher than their actual price.
Assistant Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, said that the work team at the Rashidiya Police Station tracked down the fraudster and succeeded in arresting him, pointing out the need for individuals to pay attention to such practices when purchasing cars, ensure their true value, and not sign any papers before Verifying its authenticity, pointing out that the accused caused victims of both sexes and manipulated their minds to the point of not examining what he said or the documents he presented to them.
He added that the work team faced challenges in dealing with the reports received against the accused because the victims were convinced by the offers he made to them and signed the purchase contracts without verifying the true value of the vehicles due to their excessive trust in him, and they discovered months later that they were vulnerable to fraud.
For his part, the acting director of the Rashidiya Center, Colonel Mohammed bin Majid Al Marri, stated that the accused used a nom de guerre to lure his victims and claimed to have European citizenship so that the victims would trust him.
He added that the Center received several reports against the accused, so a working team was formed to research, investigate, and collect evidence. It concluded that there were three other men who contributed to carrying out the crimes, and the necessary measures were taken against them and they were all referred to the Public Prosecution in Dubai to take legal measures against them.
For his part, the head of the Criminal Records Department at the Rashidiya Police Station, Colonel Abdul Rahman Al Habtoor, confirmed that the accused has the ability to persuade, and he used to emotionally manipulate his female victims by taking them to parties in luxury cars to delude them of his wealth, pointing out that he was able to collect millions of dirhams through these fraudulent methods. .
He added that the first case of fraud was a woman. He brokered for her the purchase of a vehicle, so she trusted him and signed a Murabaha contract in the amount of 153 thousand dirhams, while the real market value of the vehicle was about 42 thousand dirhams, so that he could seize the value difference for himself, and he also embezzled from it an additional 27 thousand dirhams to complete the purchase. The Murabaha process as it is called.
He added that the accused defrauded another woman after he caught her in his trap, became emotionally attached to her, and convinced her to sell her luxury vehicle to someone for 240,000 dirhams without her knowledge or presence, and he seized the amount for himself.
Al Habtoor indicated that the third victim was a wealthy person he met at an exhibition, and he convinced him to sell his luxury car and buy a new one. He sold the car and seized its price, pointing out that he seized 296 thousand dirhams from a fourth person in the form of a loan in exchange for mortgage of his luxury vehicle, and wrote to the victim a check for the amount. 525 thousand dirhams as a guarantee. He promised him a luxury vehicle and did not fulfill his promise. It turned out that the check account was closed.
He pointed out that the fifth victim was a European woman to whom he sold a vehicle and convinced her to sign a Murabaha contract and checks worth 187 thousand dirhams. He seized 12 thousand dirhams from her to complete the Murabaha transaction, but after a while she discovered that she had been deceived and that the insurance receipt was forged and the vehicle was not insured.
The sixth victim was a European woman to whom he sold a vehicle, and after a while she discovered that she had signed a sales contract and checks in the amount of 209 thousand dirhams, contrary to what was agreed upon, and that she had been deceived.
Al Habtoor explained that after registering these reports, the accused was tracked down and it was found that he was a professional fraudster, based on his cheerful personality and persuasive method to entrap his victims, women and men, especially since he used luxury cars to lure them around and provide them with car brokerage services.