They set out to search the company to find an iron treasury

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

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a gang of six defendants to two years imprisonment and a fine of 253,000 dirhams, 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, with complicity. Together with two other defendants who are employees of the same company, they 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 accused.

The owner of the victim company said, during the Public Prosecution’s investigations, 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 that they are 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, one of them was caught in possession of a sum of money.

The witness added that the first accused in the incident admitted in the police report that the second accused told him of his plan to steal that company, as it was using a drug-trafficking den, and went with the second and third to the company’s headquarters, impersonating anti-drug dealers, and assaulted one of the employees there, 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.

• The gang members were arrested three days after the incident, and one of them was caught in possession of a sum of money.

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