An employee embezzles 3 million dirhams from his company within 5 months

The Dubai Criminal Court convicted two Asian employees of a company specializing in administrative supervision of real estate, on charges of embezzling about three million dirhams within five months, and sentenced them to six months in prison and fined them the amount that could not be recovered.

The Public Prosecution charged the first accused with committing the crime of embezzlement of two million and 984 thousand dirhams belonging to the company in which he works, consisting of rent payments he received from tenants and issued incorrect invoices to them, while the second accused was accused of participating in an agreement to commit the crime by supporting the accused and assisting him and receiving part of the sum embezzled from it.

According to the facts of the case, the first defendant works as an administrator in the company specialized in real estate administrative supervision services, and by virtue of his profession, he was empowered with all administrative and financial powers, and to receive the rental value from the tenants, who benefit from the apartments belonging to the company.

She pointed out that the first defendant managed, with the help of the second defendant, to seize the amount of two million and 984 thousand dirhams belonging to the company, damaging it, according to the accounting report.

The owner of the company said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that the first accused received cash from the tenants, and fabricated incorrect invoices, seizing the amounts for himself.

One of the company's officials stated that the first accused was assuming an administrative profession and the task of archiving files and receiving sums of money from customers, as well as checks, to deposit them in the company's account, pointing out that he managed within five months, specifically from July to November of last year, to embezzle about three million Dirham, and this was confirmed through the internal investigation with the accused, who admitted the violations as directed to the second accused, and that was supported by the advisory report submitted in the case.

After examining the case, the Criminal Court concluded that the first accused took advantage of his work to seize the aforementioned amount with the help of the second accused, and ruled that they be convicted, imprisoned each of them for six months, and fined the amount that they seized.

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