The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced a public relations officer (Arab) who works for a company to one year after being convicted of embezzling 720,000 dirhams in dozens of transactions he made for his company over a year.
According to the Dubai Public Prosecution's investigation, the defendant betrayed the secretariat and committed fraud crimes, damaging the interests of his employer, one of Dubai's construction companies, pointing out that his job was to clear transactions and pay fees owed by the company by several government departments.
According to the investigations, the defendant falsified 370 transactions attributed to one of these circles between 2017 and 2018, and embezzled about 720,000 dirhams in favor of him. He claimed to his boss that he paid for his transactions.
A legal representative of the company in the investigations: «The crimes committed by the accused revealed in August, when it was found that it provides invoices and receipts attributed to government departments, without doing it in practice». He added: "The defendant received from the company an amount of 792 thousand dirhams for payment to one of these departments to settle financial arrears, but he paid only 72 thousand, and provided documents to pay the full amount required," pointing out that the crimes revealed, when the accused received his annual leave , And the Chief of the Accounts Section of the Company, who reviewed the Department in a routine manner, and found that the defendant paid the Authority much less than those claimed to be required.
The Public Prosecutor directed the accused to commit embezzlement and forgery, and to use documents that he knew were forged and dishonest. These charges were denied by the criminal court, but he was convicted and imprisoned for one year, followed by deportation.