Thief of diamond sent to jail for five years

DUBAI: The Dubai Appellate Court upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance sentencing a member of a gang that stole a diamond worth $20 million from a money transfer company to 5 years in jail and fined him with others $20 million. The suspects were ordered to be deported ater serving the jail term.

The details of the case date back to 2018, when the convict and two others connived to steal a diamond, worth $20 million, from the company they worked for.

According to the case papers, the convict, who worked for a money transfer company, connived with his two colleagues to steal a diamond from the company’s safe. They planned to commit their crime, ater finding out the surveillance cameras located in the safe’s location and how to enter the warehouse without being seen.

On the day of the incident, the convict and the other two entered the place, opened the safe, stole the diamond and shipped it to their home country ater the convict hid it in one of his shoes.

Dubai Police arrested two suspects and recovered the diamond, and the Court of First Instance sentenced them to prison, and the third in absentia to 5 years.

The appeals court upheld the verdict before the police arrested the fugitive convict, who was sentenced to the same term.

Moreover, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an African, 35, to three years in jail to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs67,000 on charges of luring an Asian through a fake massage centre on Facebook and stealing Dhs600 and two ATM cards, with which the defendant withdrew sums of money and bought stuff worth Dhs66,000. The defendant, who was caught and referred to the competent authorities, was assisted by two others who are still at large.

The case dates back to October last year when an Asian filed a complaint in which he stated that he had been robbed under duress and assaulted inside an apartment in Al Baraha in Dubai.