Gang of 7 arrested for stealing vehicles

DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court on Thursday heard a case in which a gang of 7 people was charged with stealing vehicles parked at the airport parking lot and forging documents for re-exporting them.

The case dated back to November 2019 when Dubai Police received a report from a European who parked his vehicle at the airport’s parking lot and let the country.

A few days later, the European returned and went to where he parked his vehicle but he did not find it. He then told the competent authorities at the airport about what happened and the surveillance cameras installed at the airport’s parking lots detected the vehicle while leaving the parking area.

During the Public Prosecution’s interrogations, a policeman said the police’s investigations into the incident showed that a gang of 7 people of different nationalities used to examine the vehicles parking at the UAE airports ater making sure they were there for some time. Later, a member of the gang used to re-programme the vehicle in question and start it without the need for a car key, while another used to enter the parking area in a rented car for easy exit from the airport’s parking lots.

The gang used to forge documents for reexport of the vehicles outside the country via the UAE’S seaports as part of its criminal activity, the policeman added, noting that the gang stole 6 vehicles in the same method and sold them outside the UAE.

The defendants confessed to the thet and Dubai Public Prosecution demanded the criminal court to issue the stiffest punishment against them.

Recently, the Fujairah Police in collaboration with the Dibba Fujairah Police Department arrested, in less than an hour, a gang which stole cash and jewellery from an Emirati’s house in Dibba.

The Dibba Fujairah Police Operations Room received a report from a citizen stating that his house was ransacked on Friday.

The citizen noticed the disappearance of a treasury containing cash and jewellery valued at Dhs500,000.