DOUALA, CAMEROON AFRICA, NOVEMBER 2010 (NEWS.CAMEROON-TODAY.COM)  -  A man, a scammer,  who is a Cameroon National was penalized by the Dubai Criminal Court for forgery.

Burj Al Arab Dubai Middle East

A Cameroonian man who claimed to be from a royal family in Africa provided Dh14.6million in Xeroxed US$100 bills and cheated an innocent Bahraini industrialist victim who was touted to be a potential investor.

MB, 33, a visitor from Cameroon, was charged yesterday at the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance with forgery, the use of fake currency bills and the misappropriation of US$58,000 (Dh2.1 million) from an industrialist based out of Bahrain.

Proof indicates that the Bahraini industrialist, Abdel Rasool Ali, 50, was introduced to the fraud by an acquaintance who allegedly claimed that an African king, wedded to the daughter of the Cameroonian ambassador to Congo, was in Dubai looking for partners to partially fund his enormous business ventures.

Mr Ali told lawyers who appeared for the state that they had scheduled an appointment for June and he had met all of MB’s expenses for the encounter.

MB came to the meeting up with a huge suitcase which had cash worth $4m and stated that it was money that was owned legally by the African royalty. “We checked the money and it was real,” said Mr Ali.

After the first level of discussions Mr Ali got back to Bahrain. MB asked him to return to Dubai and reserve two hotel rooms for each one of them to stay in. MB then asked for a loan of $58,000 and the businessman was handed over a bag with $100 notes as a security for the money he gave the fraud.

“The man claimed he could not use the money because it belonged to the royals but needed cash immediately. He offered me the money as a guarantee,” he said. After he got the cash, MB vanished into thin air and the industrialist found out to his utter dismay that the notes in the bag were all fake and Xeroxed copies of dollars..

Mr Ali lodged a complaint with the local police, and the lawmakers in turn instructed him to get in touch with MB again. MB told Mr Ali he needed another loan amounting to a sum of $250,000 for which, he proposed to give $4m of the royal family’s money as guarantee. It was when the scamster arrived to collect the money that the police were able to nab him. The final verdict on the case is proposed for November 28.