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Aziz Com Mirza is a Canadian convicted white collar criminal based in Dubai. Mirza is better known for defrauding hundreds investors worldwide through a string of dodgy investment schemes. In 2019, he was arrested in Dubai by Bur Dubai Police and in 2020, he was sentenced to jail by Dubai Criminal Court for fraud.

Career
In 2019, he came in the limelight when Gulf News reported, Mirza was arrested and sentenced to jail for committed frauds in Dubai. He was a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur mentor, influencer and philanthropist. He was a Burj Khalifa resident, had several supercars. He appeared in several public gatherings organised by the Muslim Enterpreneur Network (MEN), where he promoted his dodgy investment schemes.

Scams and dodgy schemes
In 2018, he appeared in a public event, where he introduced a crypto fraud scheme called Habibi Coin at a Leverage Programme (LP) event held in London. According to Gulf News, on his public events he claimed that "since launching his first business at age seven with a lemonade stand, he has done business in eight countries. He also, claimed to run multiple companies in technology, real estate, automotive, luxury rental, crypto currency, investment and media industries".

In 2017, he launched an online content website business called Leverage Programme (LP), each investors were charged a minimum of £5,000 (Dh24,000). The Leverage Programme (LP) was ran by the Muslim Entrepreneur network (MEN). It was reported that, Com Mirza collaborated with other fraudsters including Rafaqat "Rocky" Mirza, Ashfaq Siddique, Arif Mirza, Haroon Qureshi to commit these frauds. Among them, Rafaqat "Rocky" Mirza and Arif Mirza are his brothers. One of the collaborator Ashfaq Siddique a former Metropolitan Police detective and Al Madina Mosque Barking secretary, who promoted the dodgy investment schemes of Leverage Programme (LP) and Muslim Entrepreneur network (MEN). Also, he let them use the Al Madina Mosque Barking as its office address for several months.

According to Barking & Dagenham Post, the Leverage Programme (LP) was the brainchild of Rafaqat "Rocky" Mirza, who partnered with the Muslim Entrepreneur network (MEN) founders Haroon Qureshi and Harun Rashid to conduct these dodgy investment schemes. During 2017-2018, £1.7m of Leverage members' funds were funnelled to Arif Mirza's Dubai-based businesses illegally. They also falsified information to raise funds for the Muslim Entrepreneur network (MEN) investors for an app called Empty Trip, which was lunched by Rafaqat Rocky Mirza, Aziz Com Mirza and Arif Mirza.

Arrest and sentencing
On October 2019, a UAE resident filed a complaint to Bur Dubai Police, who reportedly lost $150,000 in a dodgy schemes ran by Aziz Com Mirza. Later, Mirza was taken into custody. In 2020, he was found guilty by Dubai Criminal Court and was sentenced to jail for fraud for six months and fined $140,000.