The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a three-year prison sentence for a Gulf civil servant, who was convicted with four others of robbery of an Asian person, theft of 272,000 dirhams, and a request to return to his job after his conviction was upheld.
Investigations by the Public Prosecution indicated that the victim sought to double his money and brought 272,000 dirhams to replace them with black dollars, without knowing that a gang of five people had prepared an ambush, and was able to rob him forcibly. Public Prosecution and then to the Criminal Court.
A witness from Dubai Police in the Public Prosecution investigation said that a research team was formed under his leadership after receiving the report, and found that the victim did not provide all the correct information, as he claimed that he brought the money to participate in the purchase of a shop, but the fact that he intended to double his money, and accordingly Linking information and reaching all the defendants, pointing out that the first defendant (public servant) denied the incident, but the statements of the rest of the defendants were consistent regarding their planning of the theft and the distribution of roles, and then the money between them after the end of the process.
He added that the first defendant was confronted again and his statements contradicted his previous knowledge of the defendants.He initially stated that he did not know them at all.He later said that he had met the second and third defendants by chance and then decided to invite them to lunch. He followed them.
The head of the disciplinary team explained that the first defendant carried out the crime in order with the rest of the defendants, and then distributed the stolen amount of 30 thousand dirhams for the fourth and fifth defendants equally, and 72 thousand and 300 dirhams for the second defendant and 60 thousand and 800 dirhams for the third defendant, and the rest to him.
He pointed out that the second defendant said in his statements that the first defendant contacted him two days after the incident and told him that they were discovered, and asked him to refund the amounts handed over to them, and not to communicate with him definitively, the second defendant contacted the third and asked him to refund the amount, as the fourth and fifth defendants decided that they They also received a call from the first defendant, and asked them to refund the money but they told him that they had acted in the whole amount, while the second defendant replied 40 thousand dirhams and the third replied 2000 dirhams.
According to the witness, the first defendant insisted on denying the theft, dividing or retrieving the money from the other defendants, but the second defendant's phone was seized after he told them that there was full evidence in his phone, that the operation was planned, and that he was connected to the first defendant for a long time. Among all the defendants. The Dubai Criminal Court convicted all the defendants and sentenced them to three years in prison, but appealed to the public official, the first defendant in the case, who was dismissed from his job, before the Court of Appeal, which rejected his appeal and upheld the verdict.
Dubai Criminal condemned all the defendants and sentenced them to three years in prison.