Dubai: A woman warehouse keeper has been accused of forging three deposit receipts and embezzling Dh15,000 from the company where she worked.
The 31-year-old Filipina, M.A., was said to have forged three receipts which showed that she had deposited money in the company’s bank account and pocketed the value of those receipts in July.
Prosecutors charged M.A. with forging and using forged papers and embezzling money from her workplace.
The Filipina pleaded guilty and admitted that she had forged receipts and used them when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the warehouse keeper forged three bank receipts which showed that she had deposited the money in the account, used those forged receipts and embezzled the cash.
An Emirati businessman claimed to prosecutors that his company’s operations manager informed him over the phone that she had noticed some financial discrepancies between their accounts and the bank’s statements.
“The operations managers explained that she had noticed the differences between the amounts registered on receipts and the bank’s statement. We carried out an internal investigation that resulted in revealing that M.A. had been embezzling some of the cash that she had been tasked to deposit in the bank account. It was discovered that she had tampered with three receipts and pocketed for herself more than Dh15,000. The company’s bank statement confirmed the differences that were discovered between our records and that of the bank. Upon confronting the suspect, she admitted that she had used her laptop to tamper with the amounts recorded on the receipts … and she claimed that she took the money for herself. She confessed that she used those forged receipts and handed them over to the company’s accounting department to take the cash for herself. M.A. signed a written confession in which she confirmed that she had embezzled Dh15,000 … then we reported her to the police,” the businessman testified to prosecutors.
The Filipina was quoted as admitting to police interrogators and prosecutors that she forged three receipts and embezzled money.
A ruling will be heard on January 8.
