UAE | Crime
Father and son face trial for embezzling cash from charity
The trial of a man and his son who are accused of tampering with donation receipts and misappropriated more than Dh10,000 from Bait Al Khair Association started on Tuesday.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:04 May 28, 2008
Dubai: The trial of a man and his son who are accused of tampering with donation receipts and misappropriated more than Dh10,000 from Bait Al Khair Association started on Tuesday.
A benevolent Emirati, who donated Dh1,000 at one of the Association's donation booths in a shopping mall, alleged that a Syrian civil servant collected from him the money and handed him an unsigned receipt.
The next day, the 40-year-old Emirati suspected the matter so he telephoned the association, which asked him to bring the original receipt, and he was told that the civil servant submitted a donation receipt which read 'Dh25'.
An Emirati supervisor at the association testified: "The benevolent donor phoned to check on the amount of money mentioned in the donation receipt... the receipt's carbon copy read Dh25 and not Dh1,000 as mentioned on the original one."
The Public Prosecution charged the 51-year-old man, A.Q., and his son, Q.A. (who is still at large) with jointly forging donation receipts and misappropriating about Dh1,000 from Bait Al Khair Association. The father was solely charged with tampering carbon copies of receipts and misappropriating Dh10,750.
"The association employed A.Q. to collect donations for a monthly salary since 2007... meanwhile the second suspect was assigned as a civil servant to collect donations from malls. Confronting A.Q. with the discrepancies between the receipts, he claimed that his son embezzled the money," the supervisor said.
Records said a Palestinian accountant calculated A.Q.'s accounts and discovered that Dh10,750 was missing. According to the association's calculations, the 51-year-old collected a sum of Dh20,295 during two months from a location, while another person collected Dh72,992 for a corresponding period at the same location.
The accountant testified: "A.Q. handled a lively location and during an year he collected Dh200,000, while another employee collected more than Dh1 million from the same location."
The Dubai Court of First Instance resumes hearing next month.
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