UAE | Crime
Do I look like a thief, asks waiter charged with stealing
An Egyptian waiter yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of stealing Dh800.
- By Bassam Za'za', Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:06 October 16, 2007
Dubai: An Egyptian waiter yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of stealing Dh800.
"For God's sake, your honour do I look like a thief... I'm a peasant and my family comes from the villages. I didn't steal the money, I borrowed it from tip boxes and promised my colleagues that I'd return it soon," the 22-year-old suspect, M.A., told presiding judge Fahmi Mounir at the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The Public Prosecution department charged the suspect with attempting to steal from a restaurant.
The defendant who claims he is his family's sole breadwinner denied the charges and said he had paid back the money during police questioning.
M.A. said: "I've been working for two years for Dh1,000 without any raise or bonus. My mother asked me for money to treat my sick father. I asked my boss for an advance, but he refused and instead hired an Iranian before sacking me arbitrarily." "The police tricked me into confessing after they promised to help me. I was made to sign a confession of which nothing was true." A verdict will be given later this month.
Trial: Three accused of embezzling Dh840,000
The trial of three supervisors who reportedly embezzled Dh840,000 from three different Emarat gas stations after misappropriating the revenues of prepaid telephone cards started yesterday.
The Public Prosecution charged the supervisors, identified J.A.,Indian, 29, his compatriot E.S., 30, and Nepalese D.T., 30, with stealing telephone prepaid cards, selling them and pocketing the revenues for themselves. The suspects were also charged with forging inter-transfer receipts.
Two of the suspects denied their charges before the Dubai Court of First Instance. An Emirati marketing manager said in his statement that they suspected the way D.T. was supervising the station and replaced him with an Egyptian supervisor. "The new supervisor phoned me and said D.T. asked him to hush up some bogus transfers."
Court records said J.A. who was supervising a gas station in Al Quoz used to take the telephone cards for himself. He used to conceal his work by sending out bogus receipts of transferring the cards to other branches. The other two suspects used to cover up for his actions.
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