CID prompt action helps a duped man get his car back

Prompt action on the part of Director of General Department of Criminal Investigation, Brig Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, has helped an Indian national get back his car from a fellow compatriot who had literally taken him for a ride.

According to the details of the case, M.P. had sold his Dubai-registered car, Toyota Corolla 2007 model, to his friend K.S.S. in April 2007, who handed over three cheques for the amounts agreed upon.

Initially, K.S.S. had agreed to buy the car along with the transfer of the car loan to his name and had issued three cheques — two bank cheques of Dh1,244 each, and another for the remaining loan balance of Dh63,444.

“After two months, K.S.S. made various excuses and asked me to wait a while before depositing the cheques,” said M.P.

Meanwhile, M.P. kept on following up with K.S.S. for his money and even requested his friend not to use the car, but the latter ignored the requests.

During the period K.S.S. also met with several road accidents, which affected and lowered the value of the car drastically. In October 2007, when the car registration renewal was due, M.P. asked K.S.S. not to apply for renewal until he had paid up the balance amount.

However, M.P. claimed that K.S.S. tricked him by using his passport and licence copies to renew the car registration without his knowledge or consent.

It was then that M.P. decided to present the cheques to the bank, but to his dismay the cheques bounced because K.S.S. had already closed his bank account in June 2004.

“K.S.S. had apparently pre-planned everything to cheat me by not giving the money or returning the car,” alleged M.P. and he decided to go to the Naif Police Station to lodge a complaint. The police asked M.P. to furnish a letter from the bank concerned for verification of signatures. But the local bank declined to issue any such letter due to lack of file records of an account that had been closed for over three years. As a result, M.P. was initially unable to register a case of fraud and cheating against K.S.S.

However, K.S.S. was subsequently asked to come to the police station for questioning and taken into custody in connection with the alleged fraud.

But K.S.S. was later released when he agreed to amicably settle the matter and return the car and M.P. agreed not to press charges. Source

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Numbers don’t add up

A government employee made dhs30,000 by illegally using the Dubai Police computer network to transfer the ownership of exclusive number plates - including some that belonged to the royal family, a Dubai court has heard. The 23-year-old UAE national, identified only as FS, had a job registering cars in Qusais.
One day he was sat at the computer when he noticed one of the policemen he worked with had left open a sensitive page on the database which was only meant to be seen by police officials. It contained information about car number plates around the city and allowed them to be easily tranferred of cancelled.FS is then said to have chosen four numbers he liked the look of - and is alleged to have picked two that belonged to dead members of the royal family.He llegedly transferred the plates into the name of one of his friends, without his knowledge, as he knew the licence number and was aware that his friend did not currently own a car.FS is alleged to have left the document open and returned to it the next day, when he tranferred another two numbers. One week later a friend of his brother came to FS asking for help in getting out of paying traffic fines. FS is then believed to have registered him for a different number plate, heloping him avoid the charges.He began to charge for his services and secured dhs30,000 from people desperate for special number plates. He was eventually found out when police noted that one of his buyers was trying to sell his car using a manipulated number plate. A verdict will be issued later this month. Source

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