UAE cop confesses to selling abandoned cars

An Emirati police officer who stole and sold between 40 to 80 vehicles abandoned and about to be impounded by the court, has confessed to his crimes before his senior colleagues.

HSR, the 25 year old sergeant, is facing trial in five vehicle theft cases. He stole two buses and a pick-up after managing to get spare keys made by claiming to the locksmith that the vehicles are to be impounded. He presented his police ID to the locksmith and documents of the three vehicles he had printed on RTA’s letterhead by exploiting his authorization to log into its electronic system.

After getting the keys made, he stole a pick-up and a bus owned by a contracting company and a trading company respectively.

Two jobless youths, identified as HIM, 22, Comoros national, and SKS, 25, Saudi, are accused of helping the police officer to steal the vehicles.

The accused police officer guided investigators to cars he had parked at different places in Sharjah, which he had not yet sold. Police investigated the case with MAT, a 28-year-old employee of the locksmith, who admitted that he opened a number vehicles on the request of the police officer who presented documents to prove that these vehicles were under the Court’s impoundment orders.

“He used to call me and ask me to make spare keys. He used to submit documents stamped by Jebel Ali Police Station and on RTA’s letterhead with the knowledge of my employer. He used to tell me that he will hand over the keys over to the bank that financed the purchase of the vehicles. Two other people used to be in his car whenever I followed him in my car to the places where the cars to be opened and impounded were parked. HSR always used to be in police uniform. I used to charge him between Dh300 to Dh400 for each car, ” testified MAT.

MAT gave investigators a file that contained the official documents that the accused police officer had given him for getting cars opened.

The Court will reconvene for hearing the cases.

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