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19 March 2024

Dh1.6 million electronics heist in Dubai

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By Eman Al Baik

On August 4, four Indians broke into an electronics warehouse and managed to escape with about 3,626 devices worth more than Dh1.6million.

The Indian suspects, two jobless men AA, 30, and MA, 37, a cook MM, 25, and a worker MR, 32, managed to do so by deceiving deceiving porters and a pickup driver that the store belonged to one of them.

The four thieves reached their target around 1am and broke the locks of the warehouse and replaced them with new ones. They did this so as not to arouse anyone's (read: porters) suspicion that they do not own the store.

They returned around 6am, with 8 porters and a pick-up vehicle to clear out the store.

The gang members took off with almost 80 per cent of electronics items stored in the warehouse of the international trading compnay in Al Qusais Industrial Area-3.

Air conditioners, washing machines, televisions, cameras, vaccuum cleaners, hair trimmers, radios and DVD players - nothing was spared.

The owner of the store, WA, told Dubai Criminal Court that only devices worth Dh450,000 were recovered after the gang members were arrested by Dubai Police.

While one of the alleged cuplrits denied the theft, others confessed but told the court that they had returned what they had stolen from the owner.

Second lieutenant HS, 23, testified in court that the police investigations revealed that one of the hired porters and the driver of the pick-up was involved in the crime. Others were hired for Dh75 each and were told to load the devices on the vehicle and offload them at a villa in Sharjah.

The verdict will be delivered on December 31.

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