A call to regulate antiques trade and set up a mechanism to verify ownership was made after an Arab man was been charged with filing a false report and inflating the value of antique belongings that were stolen from him.
Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Dubai Police, said there should be a mechanism to regulate antiques ownership and sales, such as making it compulsory to obtain a permit to sell antique pieces and investigating the ownership of undocumented pieces.
In June, the Arab man reported that an antique book made of pure gold and worth $500,000 (Dh1.835 million) was stolen from him when he was meeting a potential buyer through a middleman.
The complainant, M.H.A., told police that the middleman, B.A., and the buyer beat him up and took this book, along with another book and a briefcase containing Dh100,000 from him when he met in Muhaisena them to show them the books.
According to him, the middleman took him in his car to Muhaisena, and when he went out of the car, he was attacked by another person who tried to snatch his briefcase, and despite fierce resistance on his side, that person took the bag and ran away.
A criminal investigations team was set up to arrest the thief and return the belongings, and when he was arrested with the books, it turned out that he was a friend of the middleman, who brought him to steal the books after arranging a meeting with their owner.
Investigations revealed that the books are only worth Dh100,000, and the stolen briefcase did not contain any money.
After confronting the owner, he admitted that he had made the whole story up and inflated the value of the book to attract attention.
He was referred to Public Prosecution along with the first and second suspects.
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