The Criminal Court in Dubai has commenced the trial of an employee of a major airline in the country working in the reservations department, on charges of embezzling 162 thousand dirhams by selling travel tickets at a value higher than its actual price to the company's customers, and registering them in the system at their real value and obtaining the difference for himself, causing damage to the company and its customers in At the same time, according to investigations by the Public Prosecution, which revealed that the accused's seizure of huge differences in some tickets amounted to 5,000 dirhams per ticket.
The suspect admitted in the Public Prosecution investigations that he joined the prestigious organization in the profession of customer service and was selling the tickets and adjusting their time by receiving the cash amounts from the clients, but he was not obligated to supply the real amounts for a period that extended to about 7 months, until the total embezzled amounts 162 thousand dirhams, until the incident was discovered and investigated, and he admitted that he seized these sums and expressed his readiness to conclude a settlement with the company, attributing it to his difficult financial conditions.
A security observer from the company stated in the Public Prosecution's investigations that the accused worked for the organization for nearly three years within the team concerned with receiving communications and booking tickets, and by checking the sales of tickets made by him, he discovered that he was selling them at high prices to customers, and then recorded them at their real value in the system, so the tickets that are worth 5000 dirhams, he sells for 7,000 dirhams and gets the difference for himself.
The witness said that the accused followed four different ways to seize the value of tickets, the first is to increase the price of remembering the customer, the second is to reduce the airport tax for tickets and seize the difference for himself, and the third is to obtain the price difference that the customer must pay if he decides to upgrade the type of ticket that he booked from the class Tourist to business class, as the accused did not register in the system the process of promotion, while the fourth way is to seize the fees imposed on the customer if he postpones his trip to another day from the date specified in the ticket, pointing out that he embezzled more than 162 thousand dirhams with that The four methods During the period it was estimated at a year.