15 years imprisonment for bankers who embezzled two million and 200 thousand dirhams

A Dubai court sentenced a banker to five years in prison in absentia for embezzling AED 1.2 million by stealing a check from a bank's check book and falsifying his signature before fleeing the country. He was also sentenced in a previous case to 10 years in prison. , After being convicted of embezzling one million dirhams with an innovative trick.

In detail, the Dubai Public Prosecution's investigation revealed that the defendant was a 42-year-old Arab national who worked as a customer service officer in a national bank, inattentive one of the bank's clients, stole a check from his book, and released it on behalf of a travel and tourism company. Check, then the amount was deposited in the company account.

Investigations showed that the defendant provided the travel and tourism company with discounted tickets, obtained from some of his acquaintances who worked at the passenger services company at discounted prices, and then the 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, and therefore demanded the company to pay the value of 600 thousand dirhams, which led him to commit the crime of embezzlement of the check in question, and the transfer of one million and 200 thousand dirhams to the travel company, and then demanded to transfer 200 One thousand dirhams to the account of another company working in the field of general trade, and give him 400 thousand dirhams in cash, pointing out that the defendant fled the state on the day of payment of the check.

The criminal court in Dubai sentenced the same employee to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of embezzling one million dirhams from a bank account of a customer with an innovative trick, using a pen written in temporary ink, used to deceive the customer, and convince him to write a check, to obtain the benefits of a deposit, and then returned the accused Write the check in his favor after the ink is gone, transfer the amount to his account and fled outside the country.