Manager in Dubai Customs forgery scam

An operation manager of a shipping company allegedly forged payment orders by Dubai Customs and purchase bills by his employer and took for himself a total of Dh51,000.

SK, 40, Pakistani, is accused of committing the crime in cooperation with two others. One is VP, Indian, who has been convicted, and the other a fugitive Filipino,  the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

AKS, Indian, 53, the company’s manager accidently found in the office trash bin two Dubai Customs receipts.

“I picked them up and checked with the accounts department. I found out that the amounts on the receipts were not the same as those in the company’s records. Checking the records, I found out that there were other receipts in which the amounts differed from those in the records. I discovered embezzlements of about Dh51,000.

“Investigating further, the company’s cashier admitted to knowing about the fraud and that he was forging the receipts in coordination with the operation manager and the third accused,” AKS testified.

Shipping supervisor AM, 61, Iraqi, repeated the same testimony, saying that the total embezzled amount is Dh51,000 and the share of the accused is Dh21,000.

VP was convicted and deported on July 11, 2012 after serving eight months in jail.

The Court will reconvene on July 14.