Employees assault sponsor and seize cash, cheques from him

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court imprisoned a number of suspects working for an investor for 6 months and fined them jointly Dhs32,000. The court also ordered their deportation from the country after serving their sentences.

The suspects were charged with luring the investor, assaulting him, and stealing money and cheques from him after he refused to return money they had borrowed in their names from a bank, which they gave to him.

The details of the case date back to May 2023, when an investor, the owner of an office for finalising transactions and providing services, filed a report complaining that he had been detained and assaulted by a number of his employees.

The victim said in the interrogations that one of the persons working for him invited him to have tea in his place and he agreed, but when he arrived at the place, he found that person with 3 other employees and others.

They reportedly forced him to get into their vehicle, assaulted him, and took him to another place, where they continued assaulting and detaining him, then they seized Dhs32,000 from him, his phone, and cheques which he signed for them before they let him leave the place.

A policeman reported that an investigation team found out the place of the suspects and arrested them. On being interrogated, three of them confessed that they worked for the victim, who asked them to get loans from a bank in their names.

They reportedly agreed and handed him the amounts they had borrowed after he promised them to return them after a specific period, but he did not and told them he would not do.

The suspects added that they decided to take their money from the victim, so they lured, kidnapped, and assaulted him, with the help of others who confessed to participating in the crime but denied stealing his money.