Jobless men burgle company office, steal money

Two jobless men with the help of their fugitive friends allegedly robbed a company office in the day time and stole Dh3,000, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

According to the court’s records, the company’s clerk, Jesse George, 46, Indian, testified that on August 19, 2009 at around 3pm while she was in the company office during the lunch break alone she heard knocks at the door.

“I did not give attention because officially the company office is closed… I normally don’t go to house for lunch break because it is far away. The knocking continued till 4pm. The door’s watch eye did not show the feature of the person. From behind the door I asked the knocker about his identity. He told me that his name is Hassan and that he is a friend of the manager who left him an envelope in the company. As I opened the door, other men entered and locked the door. I started shouting but man covered my mouth with his hand and threatened me with a knife he was carrying  and asked me to execute their orders quietly.

“One of them cut off the telephone wire and took my mobile. He removed the SIM card and smashed the set. The second man asked me to open the cabinet and threatened to kill me if I do not give him the key. They forced me to sit on a chair and tied my hands with a scotch tape. They could not open the cabinet after several attempts. Then they searched the drawers and took Dh3,000, an amount left for daily expenses from one of them… Then they entered the manager’s office but I did not know what they had done there. They left me tied to the chair and ran away.”

She said that a worker in the company’s shops, Skeer, knocked the door upon the request of Blarkod, Indian salesman, who was calling Jesse on the company’s landline and her mobile number but didn’t get any answer. Jesse could not open it as they had locked it from outside with the key. “I managed to tear off the tapes so I asked him to get a key and open the door. As he opened the door we notified the police,” she testified.

Blarkod Mohammed, 29, repeated the same testimony.

During investigation, police reached HAM, 33, who failed to produce identification documents, and NKK, 28, Pakistani, the accused who followed the same modus operandi in other thefts committed in Naif are in September 2009 and had been sentenced to three years in jail in October 2010 in one of them.

The accused were arrested in November 2009 and confessed to committing the theft subject of this case and other thefts in Dubai with the help of other fugitives.

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