Dubai: A former sales manager has been accused of misusing his authority at a foodstuff company where he worked and embezzled Dh205,000 worth of cooking oil over two years.
A recent inventory at the Dubai-based foodstuff company revealed that the complaints from some clients that they had not received the items for which they had paid between 2014 and 2015.
Further investigation by the company’s management exposed, according to records, that the 42-year-old Indian man had given instructions to the warehouse staff to send some quantities of cooking oil to a third party in Sharjah and embezzled the money that was paid by a client.
The company’s legal department reported the matter to the police who apprehended the 42-year-old.
Prosecutors charged the suspect with embezzling his former employer’s Dh205,000.
The suspect firmly refuted the allegations against him when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday.
The company’s legal representative testified to prosecutors that the embezzlement was discovered in early 2016.
“Following an inventory, we provided our clients with the receipts that had been supposedly issued against the purchased items … we asked the clients to compare those receipts with their records. Three of them complained that the receipts were incompatible with the quantities of cooking oil they had received. We summoned the suspect, who was then the sales manager, and he admitted that he had embezzled the money and dispatched the sold items to third parties. The warehouse had released the quantities of cooking oil based on the suspect’s instructions to them. Later, it was discovered that some outside parties had been involved with the suspect,” he claimed to prosecutors. A Dutch client testified to prosecutors that they had paid for the items that were never delivered in 2015.
Presiding judge Urfan Omar adjourned the case to August 14 after suspect’s lawyer asked for time to submit the written defence.
