Cleaner jailed for stealing, forging employer’s cheques

A cleaner has been sentenced one-year jail for withdrawing Dh49,120 by forging his employer’s four cheques and another Dh29,610 from the bank, the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance ruled on Wednesday.

JAA, 27, was also ordered deportation after serving his jail term and had awarded the plaintiff to file a civil right case.

His compatriot, AFK, was awarded six-month jail followed by deportation on criminal complicity charge.

According to the records, JAA stole four cheques and then used them after forgery. His compatriot AFK, 24, is accused of criminal complicity as the cheques were issued in his name.

Saleswoman Minaz Khleq Sheikh, 27, testified that  JAA who works as a cleaner in Al Maha Properties, had stolen cheques from the company and forged the signature and submitted them to Commercial Bank of Dubai after filling them.

“I knew about the theft when I received a phone call from the bank notifying me about dispensing an amount to JAA who was arrested while attempting to submit another cheque to the bank. AFK was arrested while attempting to flee the country via Dubai International Airport,” she testified.

Corporal Isa Abdul Rahman testified that JAA confessed to stealing and forging the signature and filling the information in the cheques subject of the case. He also confessed that he had written the name AFK as the beneficiary.

A third accused who is still at large had agreed with them to split the amount among them, he testified.

In the previous hearing the accused confessed to the accusations before the court which granted the plaintiff the file civil right.