Two drivers steal a safe and a truck at night from an unguarded company

Two drivers at a company in the industrial zone in Jebel Ali took advantage of their knowledge of the lack of security measures mentioned in the company and easily infiltrated the accountant's office on the first floor, and one of them moved a heavy iron safe containing 350 thousand dirhams to the window and handed it to his colleague who placed it in an open truck with the keys belonging to the same institution. Then they simply left through a gate that does not have any escort, but Dubai police were able to arrest them at a later time, and recover a large part of the stolen amount despite the fact that they distributed it to a number of companies to transfer it to their countries, and the brother of one of them seized possession of part of the amount and referred the three to The Public Prosecution in Dubai and from there to the criminal court, which started their trial.

An official of the victim's company said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that one of the employees informed him of the incident of theft, and upon his arrival, two people were seen through surveillance cameras, without their features being clear, sneaking through the open office window, and one of them carried a cash safe on his shoulder, and then they stole a refrigerator truck belonging to the company. Noting that it is the custom among the company's drivers to leave the keys inside, because due to the pressure of work, the vehicles are often operated continuously to keep the goods inside the fridge, indicating that the defendants were aware of this, and they also knew that there is no security guard for the company, so they stole The safe and the car left unimpeded.

He added that the truck was found intact in the Lahbab area the next day directly through the tracking system installed in it, and the police later found the safe nearby, but it was open and an amount of 351 thousand and 498 dirhams disappeared inside, and the police recovered an amount of 281 thousand dirhams, while the two defendants stole the rest Funds.

For his part, a Dubai police witness said that a research team was formed after receiving the report, and suspicions were raised among the company’s employees, given that the thieves were fully aware of the place and the security holes in it.

By tracking surveillance cameras and monitoring evidence, the circle of suspicion in the accused was narrowed, and they were seized at the company's headquarters, and facing the first with evidence, he acknowledged that he had agreed with his colleague to steal the money safe, and went to the company’s headquarters at eleven in the evening on June 18 and made sure that it was completely free of employees, then delta To the accounting room through an open window, they transferred the safe to a truck with its key inside, and headed to Jebel Ali Street to Lehbab, and hid the safe among the trees on the side of the road, then they walked two kilometers and left the vehicle, and waited in a nearby mosque, and called a colleague to take them in his car, justifying their presence in The place that they were with others and quarreled with them and left, then the two defendants returned the next day in a taxi with the tools necessary to break the safe, after they had failed in that during the first day, and they got rid of a large amount of coins and they shared together the remaining amount of about 290 thousand dirhams, then they proceeded Later, the sums were transferred through shops designated for that purpose, but Dubai Police preceded them and arrested them and recovered a large part of the stolen amount, while the company placed a guard on its headquarters after the incident.

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