Gang jailed for stealing Dhs470,000 from trader

DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a gang of 5 Asians, and two GCC nationals to be jailed for six months and fined them all jointly Dhs470,000, which they stole from a saffron trader in the Naif area, Dubai, ater they impersonated policemen and assaulted the victim in his house.

The court also ordered the deportation of the Asians from the country ater their serving of the sentence.

The details of the case date back to October 2022, when an Asian saffron trader submited a report stating that he had been assaulted and robbed while he was in his house, indicating that a person knocked on the door and when he opened it, he found a GCC national wearing sportswear, claiming to be a CID investigator.

The victim added in the interrogations that during his conversation with the GCC national, 3 people entered his house, claiming they were CID investigators and showed a green card with a police logo writen in English on it. They then asked him for information about his work and the location of the money in his possession. He reportedly told them all information and brought them the money from his room, so, they stole it, one of them beat him, detained him inside his room, and all fled the place.

According to the case file, the investigation team arrested the GCC national in possession of part of the money while he was atempting to escape across the border.

On being interrogated, he admited his conniving with others to steal the money of a saffron trader who lived in Naif area in Dubai, and he guided the police to the location of the other gangsters, 5 suspects, who were arrested in possession of part of the money.

Upon interrogation, they admited that the fugitive was the one who planned the thet, where roles were distributed between them, as two were assigned to monitor the place and another to drive a vehicle and wait for them near the victim’s residence, while the rest of the gangsters climbed into the house and committed the crime.