A student steals a new phone and implicates his ex-girlfriend in the crime

The Dubai Criminal Court has begun the trial of a 27-year-old Asian student who stole a new iPhone 11 Pro phone whose price exceeds 3,500 dirhams after luring a sales representative of a company that sells phones over the Internet and ignoring him. Then he implicated his ex-girlfriend by selling the stolen phone in her name using a card Her identity, but Dubai Police revealed his crime and referred him to the Public Prosecution.

The representative of the company stated in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that the defendant bought the phone online, and delivered it to him at an address he specified by telephone, provided that he would charge its value upon delivery, indicating that he met the accused at an administrative building in the Al-Qusais area, and the latter told him that he had forgotten his wallet in the office and would go up to bring it.

The delegate said that he did not doubt the intentions of the accused and allowed him to take the phone and then wait for his return to hand it over to him, but he missed more than an hour, so he called him several times and did not answer him, then he turned off his phone, and he realized that he was exposed to fraud and theft, and he reported the incident, pointing out that the accused He called him later and offered to return the money in exchange for the settlement. He agreed, but the accused disappeared and did not contact him later.

For his part, a Dubai police witness said that after receiving the report, surveillance cameras were examined in the building below which the accused met the delegate, and his identity was identified, and then information came about selling the phone to a store in the Emirate of Sharjah, and the surprise was that he sold it in the name of a woman and used her identity. The team searched the incident until it reached his place and arrested him, and found in his possession 2,400 dirhams, which he claimed had obtained from his mother.

The witness said that the accused was brought to Al Qusais Police Station, and upon his question, he confessed in detail the incident of theft, and resold the phone to a shop in the Emirate of Sharjah in the name of her friend, claiming that she had given him her identity card to use in selling the phone as she was aware of this.

By asking the identity holder, it became clear that the accused tried to implicate her in the incident, as she stated that the accused had a friendship relationship with her for only one month, and she separated from him about four months before the incident, during the same period in which she lost her identity card, pointing out that she contacted the Identity Authority and tried Reporting the loss of her card more than once through the application, but she failed to do so, and her account was supported by a colleague at work, confirming that she tried to help her obtain a replacement card for the lost by lending her the value of the fees due to her financial hardship, which indicates that the accused tried to implicate her and that she did not know anything About the theft.

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