Dubai: Man robbed of Dh183,000 after being lured by fake Bitcoin deal — News

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He was assaulted and the robbers took three phones, documents and bank cheques as well after threatening to kill him



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Pub­lished: Mon 28 Nov 2022, 8:49 AM

Last updat­ed: Mon 28 Nov 2022, 11:42 AM

Two peo­ple have been jailed of rob­bing an investor and his friend after deceiv­ing them with a fake Bit­coin deal.

The details of the case go back to last July, when an Asian investor report­ed that he had been robbed and assault­ed inside his res­i­dence in the Mankhool area of ​​Dubai. He said that one of his friends (the sec­ond vic­tim) sug­gest­ed that he invest in dig­i­tal cur­ren­cy and gave him a pro­mot­er num­ber to buy Bitcoin.

The bro­ker came to his house and asked to see the cash val­ue of the dig­i­tal cur­ren­cy the vic­tim wished to buy. After check­ing the mon­ey he left, promis­ing to return with the man who would sell him Bit­coin with­in 15 minutes.

He wait­ed in his res­i­dence for them to arrive. Min­utes lat­er, the bro­ker called him and said that the sell­er was hes­i­tat­ing to com­plete the deal at the res­i­dence. He then heard a knock on the door, and was assault­ed by two men who immo­bilised him, stole the bag which con­tained Dh183,000, three phones, doc­u­ments and bank cheques. They also threat­ened to kill the victim.

The Dubai Crim­i­nal Court con­vict­ed them, sen­tenced them to three years in prison, fined them the stolen mon­ey, and ordered their depor­ta­tion after serv­ing their sentences.

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