UAE - Police bust ins. fraud gang in Umm Al Quwain

A gang of five Arab men have been arrested in Umm Al Quwain for fabricating road traffic accidents in order to claim compensation from insurance companies, police in the emirate revealed on Tuesday.

Major General Shaikh Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mualla, Commander-in-Chief of Umm Al Quwain Police, said the crime came to light last Wednesday, September 18, after traffic police noticed on their system that there had been several incidents across a number of emirates involving the same people in the same cars over a period of four to five years. Twenty incidents were linked in all, including five in Umm Al Quwain and 15 in other emirates.

In each case the circumstances were the same. The gang of five men aged in their 20s and 30s would allegedly take already damaged cars to parking lots at night, where conditions were dark and there were no witnesses, and then claim that incidents had taken place, after which they would then file a police report and claim compensation. These cars were then never repaired however, enabling the gang to repeat the ruse all over again, until the sheer number of similarities eventually raised police suspicion.


Source: Gulf News