Corrupt bank employee faces fresh charges

dubai — A bank employee, accused of bribery, is facing new charges, as a Dubai court has sent the case back to public prosecution. The bank sales executive was accused of soliciting and accepting Dh55,000 worth of bribes in return for doing illegal favours.

The Court of First Instance was due to issue a ruling in the case.

The public prosecution records show the 28-year-old Indian woman sales executive allegedly abused her post to log on to the esystem and extract data pertaining to as many as 2,500 clients. They were all located outside of the UAE at the time, with account balances exceeding Dh500,000 and which had seen no transactions for quite some time.

She allegedly revealed the confidential information to a runaway accomplice — a 35-year-old Indian — who in turn passed it to another Indian suspect, currently at large. The data included the clients’ names, dates of birth, the amount in their accounts and the numbers of their bank cards.

With the main defendant’s alleged conspiracy, four men managed to embezzle more than Dh1.1 million from a client’s bank account, after they uploaded the bank smart app on a mobile phone with a SIM card, registered in the client’s name.

They misused the client’s mobile number and enjoyed the banking services on his behalf. They had applied for a replacement card in the client’s name, after forging a special power of attorney they falsely claimed was issued from a notary public.

They also submitted forged documents to a telecommunication provider to obtain the replacement SIM card.

The alleged wrongdoings ran from December 21, 2015 to January 14, 2016, and a complaint was filed at Al Qusais police station.

While the bank employee had been charged with seeking bribes, abuse of post, getting unlawful access to an e-system, divulging confidential data and criminal complicity in fraud, her runaway accomplices had been charged in absentia with forgery, use of forged documents and fraud.

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