Driver jailed for stealing cheque from company car

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance has awarded a store keeper, AML, 22, Palestinian, one month suspended jail for stealing and collecting a cheque from his employer of Dh19,910 value.

His complicit BAR, 23, Syrian sales representative, received the same sentence.

According to the records, TAM, 42, Jordanian manager, testified that he kept a cheque in the company’s car before handing over the vehicle to AML.

“I kept the cheque in my car after collecting it from a dealer in the morning. At 6pm I asked AML to take the car to hand over some documents to a client. At around 8pm he returned and handed me the car’s key. I searched for the cheque but did not find it. I asked AML if he saw it, but he denied. I searched all around my house and the company but in vain. I went to the issuer and asked him to suspend the cheque. He later told me that it has already been collected from a branch of the bank in Al Ain,” he testified.

Police investigated the complaint and reached the two suspects.

RHL, 30, administrator, a friend of BAR, testified that he received a call from the latter telling him that someone called AML will hand him over a cheque belonging to him. RHL received the cheque from AML and later handed it over to BAR.

AML confessed to stealing the cheque but claimed it was from the company and not his boss’s car because he needed money to solve financial restrains.

BAR denied that he knew the cheque was stolen.