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Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

An African manager had never expected that he will be a victim of his own fiancée, who along with other Africans planned to rob him in his house.

However, Dubai Police successfully identified the perpetrators and referred them to the public prosecution.

The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a ruling issued by the Court of First Instance, sentencing the four-member gang to three years in jail, two of them in absentia, to be followed by deportation.

The court also imposed a fine of Dhs150,000 and $800 or equivalent after being convicted of robbing and assaulting a manager of the same nationality.

The case dates back to last October, when an African manager lodged a complaint stating that he had been assaulted and robbed inside his house.

According to the victim, two people assaulted him while he was sitting with his fiancée inside his house.

Threatening victim with a knife and assaulting his fiancée, the perpetrators forced him to open the safe.

The two perpetrators took more than Dhs150,000, $800 and his passport from the safe before they fled away, the victim said, adding that after he was released by his fiancée, he reported the incidence to the police.

A policeman said in the investigations that a team of detectives found that the two defendants were assisted by a third and the victim’s fiancée.

Two perpetrators were arrested and one of them confessed to be the mastermind of the theft with the help of the victim’s fiancée, who planned the theft and told the perpetrators about the details of the victim’s house.

The two perpetrators confessed that accompanied by the third perpetrator, they headed to the victim’s house and stole his money safe after assaulting him with a knife.

They also confessed that the theft was planned by the victim’s fiancée, who was then with the victim in his house.

One of the perpetrators confessed to having received Dhs7,000 in return for participating in the theft while the other confessed to having received Dhs30,000, of which Dhs27,000 was found in his possession.

The victim’s fiancée and the third perpetrators, who is still at large, took the rest of the amount.

Later, one of them was found to have left the UAE and consequently a search warrant was issued against both of them.