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Duo drew victim out of car after deliberate crash in Dubai
A businessman who left his pregnant wife and a daughter one morning did not know he would never see them again, as he was to be the victim of a premeditated murder - targeted for his cash.
- By Alia Al Theeb, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:40 July 15, 2008
- Here is a look at how it happened, step by step.
- Image Credit: Illustration: Dwynn Trazo/Gulf News
Dubai: A businessman who left his pregnant wife and a daughter one morning did not know he would never see them again, as he was to be the victim of a premeditated murder - targeted for his cash.
Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), on Monday revealed the mystery behind the death of an Indian businessman, identified as S.M., after he was found on a road in Ras Al Khor.
Dubai Police's Operations Room received a report of a hit and run incident last week. An ambulance arrived at the scene and was transferring the victim to hospital, but he died en route.
Colonel Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Deputy Director of Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said a team was formed to follow up the case, which appeared to be an accident, but investigations revealed that it was a pre-meditated murder, and the motive behind it was theft.
Strange
CID arrested two suspects, an Asian car washer and another man who was not carrying identification papers, in connection with the case.
Investigations revealed that the victim was driving his car and had gone to a bank to withdraw money. It turned out that he withdrew Dh329,000 from the bank, but police found only Dh10,000 in his wallet.
"The accident also appeared strange, as we questioned how could the victim step out of his car in the middle of the road and get run over and his body was found 1,500 metres away from the bank and two kilometres away from his workplace," he said.
Colonel Al Mansouri said the victim was in his car after withdrawing the money. Investigations revealed a white Prado four-wheel drive, the latest model, hit the victim's car from behind.
The victim came out to check the damage. One of the suspects, who was driving the Prado, ran the victim over, while the other went to his car and drove off with the money.
"It was a challenging task to determine the type of the car used to run over the victim because there was no evidence of the car and nobody came forward to testify about what had happened," he said.
Colonel Al Mansouri said CID formed more than 60 teams all over the UAE and established mobile operation rooms in all emirates to trace the suspects.
It turned out the suspects had stolen the Prado from a petrol station when its owner left it with its engine running. The suspects also changed the car's number plates.
"CID officers turned technical officers and called in all Prado cars similar to the suspects' car to carry out checks secretly and without annoying the owners," he said.
He said the officers checked around 2,800 Prado cars in less than a week before they found the right one. He said the suspect who was not carrying identification papers had a criminal record as he was involved in eight cases of theft from cars in various emirates.
"The suspects committed the crime of stealing the car, stealing number plates, murdering the victim and stealing his money. They have been referred to the Public Prosecution and the stolen money and cars were recovered," Colonel Al Mansouri said.
'Cooperate with us'
Police have called on the public to cooperate with them in case they see or have any information about an incident.
Colonel Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Deputy Director of Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said: "I request the public to cooperate with the police and provide any information they might have on any accident, as nobody came forward to testify about what exactly happened with the businessman, despite the fact that the incident happened in an area which has a crossing and is relatively crowded."
He said it was not possible that such an incident had happened without anyone seeing it, as there was a crowd when police arrived at the scene, but nobody came forward to give police an idea of what happened.
He said the public needed to cooperate with police in the public interest.
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