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He could get a loan in the UK to pay off the credit card debt. It might cost him but I don't really see how he's got any other option.
 
Stretch said:
He could get a loan in the UK to pay off the credit card debt. It might cost him but I don't really see how he's got any other option.
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Obviously that's an option.
But considering how lending has changed, I'm guessing he owes the bank a LOT of money. For him to call up a UK lender, from Dubai with no fixed abode isn't going to go down very well, also asking for a lot of money with no job or support... I highly doubt he is going to get one.

A dodgy loan shark maybe, but he's not in the UK to find one.
 
As mentioned by others, surely if this is legitimate he has friends/family who he can contact (via the embassy) to help him out?

The article just doesn't sound right to me though, it wouldn't surprise me if he was turned out to be a conman
 
big_white_dog84 said:
In my opinion he took the high risk, high return option by leaving the UK to chase money abroad. he's been paying no tax to the UK government, yet expects them to help him out of this mess. I do feel sorry for him, but when you play with fire you're going to get burned.
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Eh? It's not like he's being a missionary in a war and expecting to be helped out when it goes bad, he's in a civilised country as an expat.
As a British citizen he should be helped out as much as someone who has paid taxes in the UK their whole life. Having rights as a British citizen is something you are born with, not something you have to buy through paying taxes.
 
Strife212 said:
All he did was go on holiday with credit card debts outstanding.
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Which is considered trying to escape the country and evade debt under their laws. As I've already pointed out, it might not seem that big a deal here, but it's their country and it's not a Western one, despite how they have tried to make it look so. It's a very different place and a lot of people go there for big wages and for the tax relief, yet I think many forget that underneath it's very different to home, you need to abide by their laws and they certainly don't let people get away with it as our lax criminal laws can often dictate.
 
I would hardly say he's stupid? He probably didnt know that going on holiday with a credit card bill outstanding would cause so much hassle! Feel for the guy tbh
 
Who said he couldn't afford to pay his credit card? He had a job and was paying his credit card with no problems. The issue was he left the country to go on holiday without knowing the full consequences of what he was about to do.

What's so wrong about that?
 
I can't see them arresting him just for having a large credit card bill FFS. What has more likely happened is that he has been living the jet set lifestyle and has been using credit cards to fund it. He has then stopped paying said credit cards back and they have "defaulted". They obviously take it more seriously if you stop paying back debt over in Dubai.

If he was paying off the minimum payment each month, do you really think the bank would have arrested him?! It's not simply about him having a £6k bill. It looks like he stopped paying it and the bank has added extras on such as fines and interest hence the figure now being £11k. The article doesn't mention how old the debt is either so this could have been a debt from years ago and the guy just decides to go on holiday to Dubai thinking that the debt would have been written off by now.

What reason would a bank have for getting someone arrested for just running up a high credit card bill if they were still paying it?! They make their money that way, so it would be a stupid business model to arrest people who are paying their debt back as expected!!
 
Strife212 said:
All he did was go on holiday with credit card debts outstanding.
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The trouble is 100's of forigners in Dubai are doing that at the minute only they are not going back. All these idots that went over there chasing easy money are not getting what they deserve as they failed to understand the country they were going to work in.

this individual is clearly hiding something otherwise his wife who left the country could surely arrange to borrow the money from friends and family? I suspect the bank in Dubai are not the only people he has failed to repay hence the shortage of funds.
 
He didn't leave the country just with an outstanding £6k debt on his credit card, he was in dispute with the bank who were saying he hadn't paid full stop. The fact he had to sell his furnature to raise the £6k says he never had the money in the first place and was basically using his card for long term borrowing which, even in this country, is a stupid thing to do.
 
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