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Ehab Atta, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Arab manager to 5 years in jail to be followed by deportation after being convicted of embezzling Dhs17 million from the owner of the company he had been working for. The court also ruled that an Asian involved in the same case as an accomplice be acquitted.

According to the official records, an Arab manager, 46, and an Asian public relations manager, 39, were charged with embezzling Dhs17 million after forging an official application form to open a personal account in a local bank in Dubai.

The defendants changed the data of the account holder and added their mobile phones and emails. Consequently, they were able to activate the service via the Internet and transfer the amounts in the account to them.

In another case, the Dubai Criminal Court on Monday started hearing the first session of a case in which an Asian worker, 32, and other convicts were charged with human trafficking by forcing a minor girl into prostitution.

According to the official records, the defendant lured the victim into coming to the UAE by deluding her about a job in a beauty salon. He took out a passport from her home country using forged documents in which he changed her age into 15 years. As soon as he brought the victim into the UAE, the defendant kept her in an apartment, seized her passport and forced her into prostitution. As a result, she suffered from psychological disorders. A secret agent from Dubai Police discovered the incident and notified the police accordingly. A trap was set to arrest the defendant and the apartment was raided. The victim was tied to the bed and prevent from moving to comply with the defendant’s wish to work as a prostitute.

Recently, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced two GCC suspects, 36, 37, to five years in jail each, on charges of impersonating two Interpol police officers, kidnapping a 33-year-old Asian and stealing Dhs1.7 from him. The suspects allegedly stopped the victim near his workplace in Dubai’s Bani Yas area where they showed their IDs claiming to be Interpol officers.