The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced a manager of an Arabi company to five years in jail for taking advantage of his powers and seized 17.520 million dirhams from the company's owner's account. The court acquitted the senior customer relations manager of the bank from which the defendant embezzled money from collusion. By manipulating the data, adding the accused's phone number and e-mail, making them preferred to communicate by the bank, transferring funds from the victim's account to the accused's account.
The victim (Jordanian investor), in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, said that he set up his company in 2004, and appointed the accused as the director of his office, and works for 14 years, and trusted him on his property, and has all his bank account numbers, and runs his administrative and financial, pointing out that he discovered The defendant embezzled funds from the company.
He added that by checking the accounts it was found that the defendant included his personal phone number and e-mail preferred to communicate by the bank, pointing out that these data did not exist when the account was opened, indicating manipulation, but that the word «preference» written in English in a different line from the model Open the account he signed.
He pointed out that the accused used his data to activate the Internet banking service, without his consent or knowledge, and transferred large amounts to his personal account.
As to the reason for the delay in the communication, the victim said that he had bank accounts in other banks and was busy at work all the time, and did not receive text messages from the bank stating the withdrawal of funds from his account, since the defendant included another number in collusion with the director of senior customer relations At the bank, pointing out that the bank facilitated the transfer of funds from his account to the account of the accused. The victim asserted that there is a default by the direct official of the bank, since he did not monitor the accused, and discovers his abuses.
For his part, the defense agent for the bank's employee, lawyer Abdullah Hassan Al-Mansouri, defended the indictment against his client by the owner of the company, and unreasonable, stressing the lack of elements of crime assigned to the banker, pointing out that his client was surprised by the charge, as he left More than two years before the communication, he denied the accusation in full, and the court found him not guilty. A manager at the bank said that the victim had a dormant account, not a large amount, and in 2015 there was a 4% interest offer on deposits, the banker accused in the case contacted him, and the owner of the company told him to communicate with the manager of his office (the first accused), being Those things. He added that he asked the accused employee what happened, and told him that the phone number of the office manager and e-mail were present in the application before signing the account holder, pointing out that he realized by checking the account that huge amounts of money (about 17 million and 520 thousand dirhams) transferred from the victim's account To his office manager, during more than 20 transfers.