Man jailed for stealing pretty employee's picture

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded three Bangladeshis, including an office boy of the Customs office of Dubai International Airport who stole a picture of a pretty female employee, three months in jail followed by deportation.

The office boy, JRK, and his two compatriots SKS and SFM, who work for Group 4 Falak - a company assigned by the airport to perform services, were charged with stealing from the luggage of passengers. JRK was also charged with stealing two shields of Dubai Customs.

SFM, who was detained in a similar theft case pending at the court, was also ordered to pay Dh200 fine.

JRK and SKS had denied before the court the charges whereas SFM had confessed to the accusation. The court found the three guilty and awarded them the jail term and deportation sentence.

Obaid Khalfan, 25, policeman at the airport’s security control department testified that following increasing complaints about thefts of airport and Customs items and from passengers’ luggage the department initiated investigations and identified a group of suspects.

Police finally zeroed in on the Bangladeshi suspects.

When quizzed about the missing items from the Customs office, JRK, 37, confessed to stealing two shields and a picture of a former female employee from her file because he appreciated her beauty.

JRK also claimed that he put two shields in his pocket and forgot to return them. The next day he told his senior about the incident who asked him to return them. Investigations proved the story to be a false.

JRK notified police that SKS, 28, porter, had bought a mobile from SFM, 32, porter, with his knowledge that it had been stolen from a passenger’s bag. SFM is in custody in another case related to thefts at the airport.

Police arrested JRK and SKS and on searching their room found a woman’s picture in JRK’s wallet. When asked about the woman in the picture, he confessed that he had removed it from a file at Dubai Customs office as he appreciated her beauty. Besides, a mobile phone was also confiscated from the room.

Three months jail and deportation for using passport of another person

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded an Iranian who bought two valid Afghanistan passports stamped with valid UAE visas for 500,000 toman three months jail term followed by deportation and confiscation of the passports.

ARG, 32, jobless, who was arrested while attempting to leave the country on March 3 by using one of the passports, had confessed before the Dubai Prosecution that he had used one of the passports for entering the country a year before his arrest.

The accused confessed that he had bought the two passports that belonged to Rahmanullah Mohammed Didar in Iran for 500,000 toman.

He removed the original holder’s picture and placed his own on the two passports.

ARG was charged with using a correct official document belonging to another person (the visa stamp) and forging two unofficial documents (the passports) and using both documents by presenting them to officials at Dubai International Airport.

In the previous hearing, ARG confessed before the Dubai Criminal Court to the accusations and asked for verdict.

Two sentenced to six months in jail and deportation for stealing

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded two men who had stolen an Indonesian cook’s money and mobile phone after having sex with her to six months jail term followed by deportation.

HAJ, 21, jobless, Iranian, had on December 25, 2009, committed adultery with ABW, 30, Indonesian, cook. Then he asked her to allow his friend IFM to have sex with her too.

ABW, who is also in custody, told police that they stole her money and mobile phone after forcing her to have sex with them.

She claimed that later she asked them to drop her home, but instead they stole Dh600 from her bag as well as her mobile and left her in the street.

HAJ confessed before prosecution that he has stolen Dh200 from her bag and his friend stole the mobile after giving the woman the SIM card.

ABW identified the accused when they were shown to her in identification parade.

IFM, who does not have identification documents, and HAJ had denied the accusation in previous hearings.

However, the court presided by Judge Hamad Abdullatif Abdul Jawad found them guilty and sentenced them to jail and deportation.

Three months suspended jail term for threatening to kill

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded three months suspended jail term to an Iranian salesman found guilty of threatening to kill a woman and her uncle and destroying her shop if she told police about the money he owed her.

On May 1 while Sosan Rosha, 49, Dutch investor, was in her shop, MMB, 26, came to resolve some financial problems. Following an argument about the debt money, MMB threatened to kill Sosan if she went to Iran and that he will also kill her uncle that country.

He also threatened to destroy her shop if she complained to police about the money he has to pay, she testified before prosecution.

Mehrdad Ali, 51, manager, Canadian, testified before prosecution that was with Sosan at her shop in Jumeirah when MMB arrived. He said Sosan asked MMB to repay the money but the latter refused and he ended the argument by threatening to kill her and her uncle if she complained to police.

Two drivers acquitted in diesel theft case

The Dubai Criminal Court acquitted two Indian drivers who were accused of stealing diesel from their employer for lack of sufficient evidence.

According to the accusation sheet, on April 7 the two drivers KSB, 28, and JSH, 31, were seen by a worker of the contracting company while they were stealing diesel.

Hayat Khan notified the company’s security officer Salem Al Qahtani, 35, Saudi, that he saw the two drivers pumping diesel from equipment and filling it in their vehicles.

Al Qahtani testified before prosecution that the company had suspected diesel theft many times but could not identify the culprits.

“This time they were seen by a staff member so we called police,” he said.

Hayat Khan, 27, Pakistani, worker, testified before prosecution that at 4am he arrived at his workplace to supply the company’s trucks with diesel.

“Upon my arrival in the International City area, I saw two trucks of the company parked in a suspicious way. I approached the drivers and saw them stealing diesel. The two offered me a bribe so I would not inform my seniors. I refused and notified the security officer who came to the spot and then the police,” Khan told prosecution.

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