The Dubai Public Prosecution has referred two security guards to the Criminal Court for facilitating other defendants for stealing transformers, electrical cables and copper fixing handles, worth more than Dh1,434,000, from two DEWA power plants, instead of protecting the two stations they guard.
In the same case, the prosecution referred two other defendants, one in attendance and the other in absentia, who carried out the robberies for three months, and a fifth defendant who got the stolen goods, despite knowing that they were the result of theft.
An engineer at the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) said that a report from the DEWA's control and control rooms had reported a malfunction in two power stations.There were seven transformers, cables, electric wires, handles and screws worth more than AED 434,000.
A Dubai police officer said that the transfer and inspection revealed that the incident occurred in a factory in Dubai Industrial City, which was also robbed by the defendants themselves. The guard, who confessed that he had allowed a defendant and others to enter the site for three months, was arrested and cables were stolen for hundreds of thousands of dirhams. In return for 25 thousand dirhams, he revealed that a colleague was a former guard who arranged the crime with him, and the latter used to allow the gang itself to steal, the defendants were referred to the Public Prosecution, and then to the Criminal Court, which began the case.
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