Dubai: A policewoman has been accused of stealing Dh2,000 in cash from a wallet left behind by a passenger at Dubai International Airport.
The 28-year-old policewoman, E.S., was stationed at the airport when she took the money from a bag that had been kept in a lost and found box in August.
The suspect pleaded not guilty when she showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said the suspect abused her job at the police force and took the money from a passenger’s wallet that had been kept in the lost and found box.
A police corporal claimed to prosecutors that an informant alerted them that the policewoman had been spotted taking money from a wallet from the box of lost and found items.
“The suspect was apprehended at the departure hall at Terminal 3. We checked the surveillance cameras and the footage showed the suspect taking the money from the box and hiding it. Upon confronting her with the findings, E.S. admitted that she had stolen the money from the passenger’s wallet in box. She alleged that she stole US dollars and changed the currency to dirhams at the money exchange house at the airport. When she claimed that the money was in her car, we obtained prosecutors’ permission to search her car … but we did not find the money in her car upon searching it. Then she admitted that she had given the money to her friend, who wired it back to her to the same exchange house at the airport … then she was taken into custody,” testified the corporal.
The suspect was quoted as admitting to prosecutors that she had taken the money.
However she pleaded innocent before presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi, who will hand out a ruling next month.
