Man jailed for selling fake perfumes

Salesman, SS, 21, conned investors of Dh235,000 claiming to supply original perfumes from Free Zone have been awarded one year in jail followed by deportation.

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced his accomplice, RT, 25, accountant to one month in jail.

According to the records, last September, WA, an Indian investor asked his friend and countryman, SS, 21, to arrange entry permission to the Free Zone at Dubai International Airport.
 
WA supplied SS with necessary papers and issued him required permission.
 
The investor told SS that an European trader was interested in buying original perfumes.
 
SS and his friend RT assured the trader that they know dealers in the Free Zone who can arrange the required items. The two supplied WA with email addresses of two other traders they claim to have dealt with in the past.

The investor asked the two Free Zone dealers to send him quotations and price lists.
 
After the deal was struck, WA asked SS to bring them perfume samples. WA paid SS for the perfumes and received invoice from the Free Zone traders.
 
WA asked SS to keep the perfume in his house as there was no place in his company's store and he handed him the amount.

Later he checked some containers and found they were not genuine.
 
He also crossed-checked the perfume bottles with others dealers in the market, and he was assured that they were not genuine.
 
He confronted SS who accepted his guilt. SS agreed to return the money if WA handed back the perfume bottles.
 
When SS failed to return the money to the investor, he lodged a police complaint.
 
SS admitted that he had forged invoices of the Free Zone using Photoshop.
 
He also admitted that RT and others had helped him in committing the crime.
 
RT, 25, accountant admitted that he had told the victim that he works in the Free Zone and knows perfume traders.
 
Police reported that the victim had received 70 emails that contained invoices, which carried the Free Zone logo and were sent from the UAE.
 

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