Forged cheque destroys an innocent man’s life

An Emirati who had enjoyed his Dh22,000 job as a police man in Ajman, flourishing car rent business and two children saw all this collapse before his eyes in a few months just because of a forged cheque.

Khaled Eid Saeed, 30, was thrown into prison in Sharjah after an unknown man filed a court case accusing him of issuing a dud cheque for Dh290,000.

After spending some months in jail, he lost his job as a police man, his thriving car rent business was shut and his family life was destroyed after he was forced to divorce his wife and lose custody of his two daughters, aged 9 and 6 years.

When he was released from prison after forensic experts found that his signature on the cheque was forged, he had already lost every thing.

“I lost my family and my job…my car rent business came to a complete standstill and I have no idea where my 41 cars are now,” he said.

“I don’t know that person who filed a case against me and I have never seen him in my life…I told police that I have never signed a cheque for Dh290,000,” he was quoted as saying by the Dubai-based Emirat Alyoum newspaper.

As if all what happened to Saeed was not enough. Soon after he was out of jail, he started to receive a barrage of letters from banks asking him to pay back car loans.
While he has managed to reach a settlement with some banks, other institutions rejected any deal with him, so was back in jail, this time in Dubai.

“My dues to banks totalled nearly Dhfour million while I was working and I was paying regularly until this problem happened…I still have hope that I will be out of this and resume my normal life and business…all I need now is around Dh200,000 to tackle these problems and stand on my feet,” he said.

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