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28 March 2024

Staff jailed for stealing passports from safe

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By Eman Al Baik

A Ugandan rescue staff, who stole a safe box from his employer's company that contained passports of co-workers, received six months in jail.

MS, 25, was also ordered to be deported after serving his jail term.

According to the records, on December 30, FK, 28, operation manager of the company was shocked when he found that the door of the company's office was ajar.

"I got into the office and saw papers and documents were in a mess.

"Checking the store where there was a safe box and contained 64 passports of the company's staff and other documents in addition to Dh900 cash, I discovered that the box was missing," the manager told investigators.

Later FK, received SMS on her mobile and the sender was asking her for money against returning the documents.

Police identified MS, 25, one of the company's staff as the sender of the messages and arrested him.

Police confiscated the passports and other documents that he stole.