The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced an Arab employee (42 years) to 10 years in prison in absentia. He was convicted of embezzling one million dirhams from a client's bank account with an imaginary trick. Deceive the client, and persuade him to write a check, to obtain the benefits of a deposit, and then the defendant rewrote the check in his favor after the removal of ink, and transferred the amount to his account and fled outside the state.
The victim stated in the Dubai Public Prosecution investigation that he deposited in his personal account at the bank an amount of one million dirhams, and then transferred the amount to a deposit in the bank itself. The deposit earned maturities of AED 1,850, adding that the defendant asked him to liquidate the deposit until the amount of interest was deposited in his account.The victim then went to the bank the next day.He met the defendant and signed two checks, one for the value of the deposit and the other for the interest. The victim pointed out that the defendant had written the two checks with his own pen and asked him to sign them. The victim signed another pen that he had with him, then the latter asked for a photocopy of the two checks. The defendant did not hesitate to give him this picture. The victim stated that he received a letter from the bank two days after the signature of the checks, telling him that one million dirhams had been deposited in his account, but was surprised the next day by another letter stating that the deposited amount was withdrawn. A pen in writing the checks disappears after a period of time, and then the accused changed the data of the checks after the disappearance of the ink so that he could withdraw the amount in his favor, and then left the state the same day. The victim stated that he reported the incident to the police, and several days later the bank conducted an internal investigation and then returned the deposit amount (AED 1 million) again.
For his part, a bank employee said, in the prosecution's investigation, that the defendant seized the amount of the deposit by defrauding the owner and the bank at the same time, by breaking the deposit of one of the bank's customers, and seizing it by changing the data of two checks with a valid signature from the owner of the deposit. He pointed out that the employee is also accused in another embezzlement case worth 1.2 million dirhams from a customer of the bank, and during the investigation of the last case, received a complaint against the bank from the depository.
In the other case, the Dubai Criminal Court began the trial of the employee accused of embezzlement of one million and 200 thousand dirhams, by stealing a check from a bank's check book, falsifying his signature, and fleeing abroad.
Investigations by the Dubai Public Prosecution indicated that the defendant was unaware of the victim, stole a check from his book, released it on behalf of a travel and tourism company, falsified the signature of the check holder, and deposited the amount in the company's account.
Investigations showed that the defendant provided the travel and tourism company with discounted tickets, obtained from some of his acquaintances working in the passenger services company, and then the travel and tourism company benefits from the difference in ticket prices, and gives the defendant a commission for these tickets.
Investigations pointed out that a number of tickets handed over by the defendant to the company were canceled. To the account of another company working in the field of general trade, and give him the amount of 400 thousand dirhams in cash, pointing out that the defendant fled the state after the payment of the check and received the stolen amount.