Dubai: Two workers have been accused of ambushing two employees of a money exchange house and attempting to rob Dh1.8 million from them at knifepoint in a street.

The Nigerian workers, 33-year-old T.A. and 30-year-old E.J., were said to have attacked the Nepalese employees at 9.40pm while they were transferring the cash in a mbag to the company’s security car in Naif in June.

Records said the Nepalese men foiled the suspects’ attempt to rob them at knifepoint as they fought back and one of them sustained an injury.

Prosecutors accused T.A. and E.J. of assaulting the Nepalese men and attempting to steal Dh1.8 million.

T.A. was not brought from his detention to the Dubai Court of First Instance where he was scheduled to enter his plea on Sunday.

Meanwhile the presiding judge did not read out E.J.’s accusations.

According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the duo and a third suspect, who remains at large, mugged the Nepalese men while they were heading to the car to put the cash in the truck to take it to the exchange house.

Records said one of them resisted the suspects’ attempt while his co-worker reported the matter to the police.

One of the attacked men, 25-year-old K.P., claimed to prosecutors that the suspects ambushed them while they were taking the money to the truck.

“My co-worker was carrying the moneybag when the defendants attacked us. One of them blocked our way and tried to snatch the bag y from my co-worker’s hand. Immediately I hit him on his arm … then my co-worker rushed quickly to the truck. Another suspect ran from the opposite side and tried to stab me with a knife … I injured my arm while trying to avoid the knife. I pushed the attacker, who fell down on the ground. A third suspect came running from the other side but when he spotted his accomplice down on the ground, they all ran away. Then we called the police,” he testified to prosecutors.

The co-worker confirmed what had happened in his prosecution statement.

A police lieutenant claimed to prosecutors that primary interrogations unveiled that the suspects were involved in the case.

The trial continues.