Ex-auditor accused of embezzling Dh15.77m from Dubai College
Accused of forging more than 200 cheques by replacing beneficiaries’ names with his own
Dubai: An auditor has been accused of abusing his former job at Dubai College to forge cheques and embezzle Dh15.77 million.
Prosecutors accused the 37-year-old auditor, A.D., with forging a number of cheques by replacing the beneficiaries’ names with that of his own and embezzling the money.
The defendant did not show up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday morning and remains at large, according to prosecution records.
The Public Funds Prosecution charged the Indian defendant with forging nine cheques issued to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) worth Dh4.7 million and embezzling the money.
He is also accused of forging 48 cheques issued to du and embezzling Dh3.9 million.
Prosecutors also accused A.D. of forging 75 cheques issued to DHL and embezzling Dh4.3 million. He was also charged with embezzling 60 cheques issued to different beneficiaries and embezzling an amount of Dh2.59 million.
Presiding Judge Ali Atiyyah Sa’ad adjourned the case until November 8.
A British manager testified that the incident was discovered when the college hired a financial auditor to audit its accounts.
“When the defendant was asked to provide the financial auditor with all the books and records, A.D. claimed that the system crashed. He alleged that the system repeatedly gave discrepancies in the numbers due to that glitch. The suspect kept on stalling us until November of the same year. I suspected his attitude and asked the college’s technicians to check whether the system had crashed or malfunctioned. The financial auditor discovered that the suspect forged more than 200 cheques and pocketed their amounts. The defendant used to replace the beneficiaries’ names by leaving space between the letters then inking his own name as the beneficiary,” the manager told prosecutors.
