Imprisonment of gang members who stole a company in collusion with employees

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a two-year prison sentence and a fine of 253,000 dirhams to a gang of six defendants, who stole 253,000 dirhams under duress from a company, after three of them impersonated policemen and stormed the company’s headquarters, and forced one of its employees to open the iron safe and stole the amount, in collusion with Two other defendants, who are employees of the same company, instructed the thieves to locate the money and how to steal it, and even played the role of the victim during the execution of the crime, in addition to a sixth defendant who took over the transfer of the defendants.

The victim said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he was at the company’s headquarters in the Frij Al-Marar area, accompanied by four employees, and he was surprised by three people coming to the company’s headquarters, putting masks on their faces and wearing gloves, and claiming that they are detectives without showing their identities or proof. Being from the police.

He added that the defendants proceeded to search the company until they found an iron safe, so they asked him to hand them over the key, but he claimed that he did not have it in his possession, then two of them beat him severely, punching him in the face, while the third stood at the door of the company watching the place, then they searched him and found His pocket was on the key, then they stole 253 thousand and 500 dirhams of the revenues of the place, then left and closed the door of the company from the outside on the victim and his colleagues, so the latter used a spare key and went out and informed the police.

For his part, a Dubai Police witness said that he went to the crime scene, reviewed the surveillance camera recordings at the headquarters of a neighboring company, and saw three people storming the headquarters of the victim company. Three days after the incident, a sum of money was seized from one of them.

The witness added that the first defendant in the incident admitted, in the police report, that the second defendant had told him of his plan to steal that company, as it was using a drug-trafficking den. Then they stole the money that was in the treasury.

He pointed out that the fourth and fifth defendants in the case were employees of the company that was robbed, and they conspired with the other defendants to carry out the crime. Then they stole the money and distributed it among them later, according to the size of their role.

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