Sharjah: Electronic devices worth over Dh15,000 were stolen from a computer shop in Sharjah’s Al Qasmiya area on Monday. The theft is believed to have taken place in the wee hours of the day.
Arshad Salim, 62, owner, Al Diplomacy Computers, told XPRESS he shut shop as usual on Sunday evening. But when his staff opened the shop the following morning they found it ransacked.
“He [the staff] called me as soon as he realised upon lifting the shutter there had been a theft. As many as 15 laptops and three external hard drives had been stolen,” said Salim, who started this enterprise last March, months after retiring as a Dubai Municipality public health officer.
“The men would have got in through the very small opening between the front door and ceiling. No locks were broken but almost two shelves full of devices were swept clean,” added the Pakistani who won a Dubai Government Excellence Programme Award several years ago for his four decades of government service.
The shop is located at Al Qasmiya near Spinneys. It mainly dealt in second-hand computers and laptops. “The last time a theft was reported in this area was at a pharmacy almost three years ago. Such an incident has rarely happened in this area,” said a staff of a neighbouring shop.
Sharjah police are investigating the matter. No one has been arrested so far.
