Staffer stole Etisalat's smart phones using colleagues' user names and passwords

A temporary Egyptian sales executive of Etisalat allegedly stole 20 smart phones using user names and passwords of himself and his colleagues in the company’s computer system.

28-year-old SA joined Etisalat in July 2010 as sales executive for selling company’s products including mobile phones. He was given a user name and password as he had to feed customers’ purchase applications into Etisalat’s computer system.
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Last February, a sales executive discovered that two applications were fed into the company’s computer system using his ID and password for sales that he had not made. As he suspected that one of his colleagues, he informed his senior who assigned him to inquire into the matter.

Reviewing camera footage, this employee saw SA collecting two mobile phones from an employee and going back to his desk.

When confronted, SA confessed to using IDs and passwords of three of his colleagues for feeding 12 purchase applications into the company’s computer system. The accused used names of bogus companies and took 12 smart phones for himself which he sold to a Jordanian for Dh2,200 each, according to court records.

All the false applications were processed during February. When asked how he got the IDs and passwords of his colleagues, the accused admitted that he had claimed to them that he needed to log into the system with their IDs and passwords to make changes in addresses of some buyers on applications they had made.

Etisalat’s management found out that the accused had used his own ID and password to sell mobile phone to eight other bogus customers in September 2012.

The total value of the 20 smart phones he had stolen was estimate at around Dh79,000.

The accused is facing accusations of forgery,  using forged documents and embezzlement.

The Court will give its verdict on November 24.