Three cable stealers get one year in prison

Three Pakistanis were sentenced to one year in jail for stealing electric cables worth Dh75,000 from the employer of one of them.

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance also ordered GM, 37, worker, MS, 27, driver, and MN, 26, salesman, to be deported after serving their jail term.

A fourth Pakistani, AM, was sentenced to a month in jail for possessing stolen things.
 
According to the records, on Thursday September 12, GM stole the key of his employer’s paper factory from another supervisor.

On the following day, he opened the door to other two compatriots MS and MN who loaded the cables in a pickup, paid GM Dh7,000 on the spot and left the scene.

On Saturday, the factory’s supervisor came together with other workers but did not find the key in his pocket.

“We all started searching for the key including GM who, after a few minutes, claimed to have found it in front of the gate. I did not suspect the incident and opened the gate to the workers,” testified the supervisor.

However, after two days the management of the company discovered that new electricity cables that were kept under a pile of bags were missing.

“A waste collecting company picked up bags that were piled on the new cable rolls,” the factory’s Egyptian manager told investigators. 

“We were surprised that there were no cable rolls under the bags. We asked workers about the cables but none had seen them. We suspected GM as his friends had reported that they had recently seen him with a large amount of money.

Confronting him with the incident of the lost key that he claimed to have found in front of the gate and the missing cables, GM admitted to committing the theft along with two compatriots,” said that manager.

In coordination with Sharjah police, the worker’s accomplices MN and MS were arrested. 

The two told the police that they had sold the cables that they had bought to AM.
 
Bangladeshi salesman AM, 26, from whom the cables were confiscated, was also arrested.

AM admitted to buying the cables for Dh17,390 without asking about their source.

Chief Prosecutor Ahmad Al Hammadi had asked the court to implement stiff penalty against the accused.
 

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