He committed his crimes in 4 fraudulent ways

An airline employee embezzles 162,000 dirhams of airline tickets

The Dubai Criminal Court has begun the trial of an employee of the nationality of an Arab country at an airline on charges of embezzling about 162 thousand dirhams, the value of travel tickets issued to clients without mentioning the amounts in the interest of the company, and he continued his crimes for a year until it was revealed, and it was found that he was selling tickets at certain prices and registering them at prices Less and he gets the difference for himself.

The accused admitted in the investigations of the Public Prosecution in Dubai that he joined the institution in the profession of customer service, and one of his duties was to sell tickets and adjust the timings and grades of tickets sold, and then return those sums to the institution’s account.

The accused said that he used to receive cash from clients and book tickets for them, but he did not transfer the money to the institution, and the total sums he embezzled amounted to 162,155 dirhams, until the incident was discovered after about seven months, so he was interrogated in an internal investigation and he admitted his excesses, and he expressed his readiness to return the sums. To the complainant in exchange for a settlement, attributing his doing so to his difficult financial circumstances.

A witness from the victim institution working in the profession of a security observer who checks the tasks performed by the employees, including the accused, said that by reviewing the record of the transactions carried out by the accused, it was found that he was selling tickets at high prices to customers, then the price decreases in the electronic system for booking tickets and seizes the difference Himself, for example, he used to sell the ticket for 7000 dirhams and then register it for 5000 dirhams.

He explained that the accused followed four ways to seize the value of tickets: the first was by increasing the ticket price on the customer and misappropriating the difference for himself, the second to reducing the airport tax for tickets and seizing the difference, and the third to upgrade the airline ticket from one class to another and then seizing the difference, and the fourth method was to seize Fees imposed on the customer if he postponed the trip, indicating that the total tickets that stole part of their value amounted to 27 tickets, with a value of 162 thousand and 155 dirhams, during a whole year.

He pointed out that the accused was summoned after discovering his transgressions, and he acknowledged in an internal investigation of the embezzlement, so the police were informed, and referred to the Public Prosecution Office and from there to the Criminal Court, which started his trial.

The accused admitted, in an internal investigation, that the sums had been embezzled, and expressed his willingness to return them in exchange for a settlement.

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