Police found 459 thousand dirhams with one of the accused

A million dirhams were stolen from a merchant after being lured in a fake deal

Finding a paper in which one of the accused determined the share of each person who participated in the crime.

The Public Prosecution in Dubai referred to the Criminal Court an Arab visitor who stole a million dirhams under duress from an Asian merchant after agreeing with him on a bag deal, then betrayed him, and assaulted him with others who fled.

It also referred an Arab defendant who was found in possession of 459 thousand dirhams of the stolen sum.

The victim said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he had met the accused previously in his office to complete a deal to buy bags, and they agreed to transfer an amount of $ 511,000 (about 1.8 million dirhams) to the defendant’s account, in addition to handing him one million dirhams in cash at a specified date in the latter’s office.

He added that he carried the money on the specified date in a black bag, and they agreed to meet in a specific place, and when he arrived there, accompanied by his partner, an African person dressed as security guards came to him, and asked him for his name, and told him that he would take him to the accused’s office, then he suddenly overlooked and withdrew The bag was forced from him, which led to the rupture of her belt, and he fled with it.

For his part, the partner of the victim said that he was accompanied by the latter when they went to complete the deal and hand over the money, and the first accused spoke with them by phone to guide them to the place, and asked them about the type of vehicle they came in, and its specifications, in order to send a person to guide them to the building, then an African dressed person came The uniform of a security guard, and he asked the victim for his name, while the first accused was still talking on the phone with the victim, and suddenly the African person pulled the bag from the latter's hand and ran away.

A Dubai police witness confirmed the formation of a work team upon receiving a notification about the theft, adding that the team concluded that the first accused was the one who planned the crime, so he located him with the second accused, and they were arrested in a hotel.

The witness added that he found part of the stolen sum with the first accused, in addition to a paper in which he specified the share of each person who participated in the crime, including the second accused, who was found with him at 459 thousand dirhams.

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