The "court" ruled that he imprisoned him, returned the money, and fined his company
A Gulf Arab hacks the correspondence of two companies and seizes 4.3 million dirhams
Badr Abdullah Khamis: “There is a availability of criminal intent for the crime of fraud with the accused of counterfeiting the mail of the first company and taking a false name.”
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It took seven full years for the various judicial departments to resolve an electronic fraud case, carried out by the owner of a company in Dubai holding the nationality of a Gulf state, as he penetrated electronic correspondence between two other companies, one in Sharjah and the other in Saudi Arabia, and reached the content of the long commercial relationship between them, and sent a message by e-mail Completely similar to the post of an employee of the first company, asking the second company for amounts owed about four million and 370 thousand dirhams, and a different account number for his company was included, claiming that he had changed the account, so the trick fell on the company in Saudi Arabia, and transferred the money to his company, and then discovered later that it is She was the victim of an elaborate scam.
After that, a long litigation journey began in the Sharjah Courts, which began with the Court of First Instance, which ruled the conviction of the accused, sentenced him to one year in prison and obliged him to return the amount, and also imposed a fine of 250 thousand additional dirhams on his company, and the Appeal Court upheld the same ruling, but the accused appealed against different motives before the Federal Court Which ruled to annul the ruling, and ordered the case to be referred again to the Court of Appeal for consideration by a different body, to start a new chapter that lasted about five years.
According to the case file, the incident began in February 2013, when the accused company and its owner counterfeited the e-mail of a marketing company in the country, which had commercial dealings for 14 years with the victim company in Saudi Arabia, and sent e-mails to the last company, asking them for dues. The money he owed to the first company, and was able to deceive the victim, and get it to transfer sums of money in installments amounting to four million and 370 thousand dirhams, then it became clear after a period that those sums did not reach the account of the company concerned, but were transferred to the account of the accused's company.
A partner of the victim's company said, in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, that there is a commercial relationship extending for 14 years with a company in Dubai that purchases the devices for them, so his employees did not doubt the validity of the e-mail that received them, because it contained commercial details, so the money was transferred to a number The new account that was mentioned in the fraudulent company’s letter, pointing out that the accused imitated an “e-mail” of an employee involved in dealing with his company, but on another electronic server.
He explained that he did not know how the accused came to the data of the other company, the dates of the payments due to it, the e-mail of the employee concerned with the coordination between the two companies, and her name, requesting the refund.
For his part, the accused, the owner of the convicted company, gave two different accounts in his testimonies before the judiciary, once he mentioned that the money that was transferred to its account in exchange for a commercial deal with a company based in the United States of America, and the transfers come through the victim company in Saudi Arabia.
In another version, he stated that these funds were deposited in his company's account based on commercial transactions with an Asian person, and that the bank told him that the money was transferred to his account by mistake from the Saudi company, and he expressed his readiness to return it and deposit it in the court's treasury if a judgment is issued in favor of the Saudi company, but he did not comply So.
For his part, the agent of the victim's company, Lawyer Badr Abdullah Khamis, confirmed in his closing memorandum that the criminal intent for the crime of fraud had been met by the accused by copying the mail of the first company in the country, taking a false name, and transferring the amount in four installments to his company's account, without having Any commercial dealings with the victim company.
For its part, the Sharjah Federal Court of Appeal settled the long dispute, and ruled rejecting the accused's appeal, upholding the verdict of one year imprisonment, obligating him and his company to return the embezzled funds, and fine his company of 250 thousand dirhams.
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