Embezzler busted for posing as Brad Pitt

DUBAI (Reuters) – A salesman tried to fleece a money
exchanger in the United Arab Emirates by using an identity card
bearing the picture of Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt, a local
newspaper reported Thursday.

The Gulf News said the 29-year-old Jordanian had been told
by his brother, who worked at the Dubai money exchange, that
more than $23,000 in cash had been transferred to the bureau
for a client who had not picked it up for more than three
months.

The Jordanian then forged an ID using the client’s name and
a picture of Pitt. He hoped his brother would then be able to
hand over the cash and keep a photocopy of the fake ID as
record of the transfer.

The man, who was arrested on a tip from an informant, told
police when he was caught that he did not know whose picture he
had downloaded from the Internet. The Dubai prosecutor’s office
has charged the man with forgery and attempted embezzlement.