Salesman caught stealing from employer

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance awarded a sales executive, in a jewellery company, five years of jail for stealing Dh150,000, from his employer.

The Court also ordered 45-year-old Indian, BKM, to be deported after serving his jail term.

The owner of jewellery company SZA, 54, a resident of Saudi Arabia testified that he has three employees. On September 23, he came to the country to attend Shajrah Jewellery show and had Saudi Riyal160,000 and US$12,100.

“I asked One of the company’s staff, Intizar, to keep the money in the company’s safe, which also included Dh320,000. On September 25, I travelled back to Saudi Arabia and came again on October 1. I called the accused BKM and asked him to meet in front of a bank and to bring with him a cheque book request application. I issued a check of Dh200,000 in the name of BKM to withdraw it so that I don't have to stand in the queue for a long time. He withdrew the amount.  We left together and I dropped him back at work and went to rest in the hotel. After sometime I received a call from a staff member of the company who was sobing but could not tell me why he was crying. They just asked me to come quickly to the office . I called IJ, who helps me in my business in Saudi Arabia and who was closer to the office to rush and find out the problem.

"IJ called me back telling me that he could not figure out what the problem was. As I arrived, the two workers told me that the money was missing from the safe. Checking the CCTV, we found out that the accused had approached the cameras and then the recording stopped,” he testified.

Police did not find any trace of violence in the office premises and the CCTV showed Intizar was doing his work while the accused was in the CCTV control room before it stopped recording. The camera stopped working for 2 days from September 27. 

The recording showed that the accused gave the money to Intizar to put in the safe. As he did not find any amount in the safe, Intizar started searching the office premises while the accused was seen behaving normally as if nothing had happened, according to the records.

An electrician proved that the cameras had been stopped by cutting off wires.

The accused confessed to stealing the amount and transferring them via two money exchange companies to his account back in India.

He also confessed that he handed a friend a sweet box where he hide a portion of the amount and asked him to hand it over to his parents in India without telling him what was in the box.

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