Legal adviser denies forging fake health club membership for fiancee to use

Briton said he knew Nahkeel membership was forged but that he had no intention of using it.

DUBAI // A British legal adviser denied forging and giving a fake health club membership card to his fiancee.

The 33-year-old told judges at Dubai Criminal Court: “I’m not guilty, and it was not my intention to use the card, nor did I forge it. I knew it was forged, but I wasn’t going to use it.”

His fiancee was reported to police by a Nakheel building security guard on June 30 last year for using the fake membership card to gain access to the club.

“The guard called me so I went to the club where I saw the woman. She said the defendant had given her the card and, shortly after, the defendant arrived. When I asked him about the card, he said he got it from a printing company and gave it as a gift to his fiancee but never thought she would use it,” said an Iraqi Nakheel manager.

The next hearing will be on January 23.