Three jailed for snatching Dhs700,000 from a trading firm's workers

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

An Arab and two Asians impersonated policemen and stole a bag containing Dhs700,000 and documents belonging to a general trading company based in Deira.

The Dubai Misdemeanor Court sentenced two of them to six months in presence and the third to one year in absentia to be followed by deportation and fined them the same amount.

The case dates back to last February when an employee filed a complaint in which he stated that he had been robbed and defrauded by a gang while he was walking with his workmate.

The complainant stated in the interrogations that the owner of the company he was working for asked him and a workmate to transport money to another company near the Ittihad Metro Station.

On their way to the company, he and his workmate were stopped by two men, one of whom in the national dress (kandora), who introduced himself as a policeman and asked him to present his ID card and show what he had got, he said.

Immediately after responding to the defendant’s request and presenting his ID card, the second defendant began searching the bag by the time their partner came in a vehicle in which the defendants got into quickly and they all fled away, the complainant said, adding that he reported the incident to the police.

According to the official documents, a team of detectives gathered inferences and checked the surveillance cameras in place before they managed to identify the suspects and to arrest two of them with Dhs15,000 in their possession.

On interrogation, the suspects confessed to the theft, adding that the seized amount of money was part of their share.  

They also confessed that the remaining amount of the stolen money was with the third defendant who planned for the theft after he had obtained information that the company’s money was to be transported to another place on a specific date.

They kept an eye on the company on the specified date and managed to steal the money, they said.