UAE court hears 2nd forged e-visas case vs. Pinay

A United Arab Emirates court heard Wednesday charges against a Filipina travel consultant that she forged e-visa forms and emailed these to a woman and her mother who wanted to visit Dubai.

The Filipina, 25, was accused of effectively embezzling some Dh6,100 (P71,041) from a travel agency when she faked the two e-visas, Gulf News reported.

She did not face the Dubai Court of First Instance where she was scheduled to enter a plea on Wednesday, however, as she was not brought out of jail.

Presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi adjourned the case until the Filipina is brought from her detention. The court reconvenes next week.

In the case, a woman told prosecutors she asked the Filipina to book two-way tickets for her mother and sister and to issue them visit visas.

She said the defendant emailed her in January photocopies of the visas and claimed that she sent the original to the Philippines.

The defendant was cited admitting to prosecutors that she forged the visas and kept the money for herself.

Second case

It was the second case against the Filipina, who had admitted earlier she embezzled Dh64,000 through forging e-visas.

At the time, she confessed printing out authentic tourist visa forms from Dubai’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners’ Affairs online system.

She then made photocopies of these, and tampered with the tourists’ details on them before sending them to potential tourists. She is to be sentenced in this case on May 28.  Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News

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