Manager jailed for stealing safe from shop

A Syrian assistant engineer was awarded one year jail followed by deportation after he was found guilty of stealing safe from an Axiom Telecom shop in Deira City Centre with the help of a fugitive.

The safe contained more than Dh214,000 and was opened only by the Police after his arrest.

According to the Dubai Courts records, MSH, 28, with THA, who has fled the country, were accused of breaking the accounts box... taking one of two keys of the safe.

MSH is also accused of destroying surveillance camera wires and device.

MSH confessed before the prosecution that at around 11.50 of Friday, July 22, he went with THA to Deira City Centre. THA asked him to stay in front of Axiom Telecom and to let him know when it closes.

“I called him as the shop closed. He came and entered the shop using its back door key.  THA broke the account box and took a key of the safe. He tried to open the safe using the key but he could not. He took four iPhone sets and then we went to Grand Central hotel at around 3.45am; we went to Rotana Internet Café and we stayed  there for about half an hour before heading home. THA changed his dress and I waited him in the car. At around 5.15am he told me that we have to go back to the shop to remove the surveillance cameras which captured us in the first time. We arrived there at around 6am. THA cut the electricity wires of the camera and removed it and put it in a shopping trolley. Then he carried the safe and put it in the trolley. We threw the camera in a garbage bin and the safe remained in the rented car. THA went back home and asked me to open the safe and transfer the money to him,” he testified.

“Our roommate AF who knows nothing about the theft, dropped him by his car to the airport. At around 5pm AF left the flat so I brought the safe from the car and tried to open it by a drill, but could not. At around 1.30am on the following day police arrested me in the flat,” he testified.

Store keeper Bishal Karki, 36, Nepali, testified that at around 9.30 he got a call from one of the shop’s employees telling him about the theft. Police were notified and checked the shop. One of the cameras showed two persons one of who was wearing the Axiom Telecom’s uniform and the other was wearing a black shirt and a trouser. They were seen using a shopping trolley in one picture it was empty and in the other it was full. They were seen cutting off electricity wires of one of the cameras.

“The safe contained Dh214,010 revenues of the sales. Dh825, the shop expenses, Dh300 belonged to a customer. Four iPhone sets and accessories were stolen in addition to iPod which was in the safe and other documents and stuff,” he testified.

Police reported that the shop was opened from the back-door key. The safe which has two locks was opened by the police and found in it large amount and documents.
 

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