A gang robs an accountant carrying 220,000 dirhams in a plastic bag

The Dubai Criminal Court began the trial of a gang consisting of six unemployed Africans who targeted an employee who did not adhere to the simplest safety procedures set by the security services and carried an amount of 220 thousand dirhams in a plastic bag, so the gang members attacked him as soon as he left an exchange company and fled within seconds.

The victim, an Arab accountant in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, said that he withdrew 220 thousand and 200 dirhams from one of the exchange offices in the Fereej Ayal Nasser area, which is part of an amount that a customer transferred to the company he works for, and put the money in a white plastic bag, and went out to his company’s headquarters To deposit it in the cash safe in preparation for depositing it into the company’s account the next day, unaware that there are eyes watching it inside the exchange, and its owners are waiting for the right moment to attack it.

He added that he walked normally, but before arriving at his workplace, he was oblivious to a person with African features and pulled the bag from his hand and set off running, so the victim ran after him, but was surprised by another person who puts his foot in front of him and fell on the ground in pain, while the thieves managed to escape with the amount.

For his part, a Dubai police witness said that a report was received about the incident, so he went to the patrol to the site of the accident and wrote down the victim's statement, and then formed a criminal investigation team to track down the perpetrators and identify their identities, pointing out that the work team was able to reach them after hearing the eyewitnesses and unloading CCTV recordings and recruiting sources.

The witness added that the work team was able to arrest six suspects, and they acknowledged in the police inference report that the first accused was the one who planned the crime, and three of them monitored, tracked and stolen the accused, while the fifth took over the driving of the vehicle and the sixth cooperated with them, and they distributed the money between them according to the nature of their role.

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