Dubai bank employee stands trial for embezzling Dh130,000 from customer

dubai — A bank employee has been charged in court after he allegedly embezzled Dh130,000 paid by a customer. The amount was given to him to repay loans taken from the bank to purchase three cars.

The 25-year-old Jordanian man worked as a loan collector at the bank when he allegedly abused his post and embezzled the money on November 6.

The employee also allegedly forged a bank deposit form which he filled up with details to make the customer believe that he was indeed depositing the money at the bank towards paying up the car loans.

He forged a cheque worth Dh130,000 in which he cited a

When I contacted him three days later to see whether the mortgage was cleared, he did not take my calls.” Victim testifies

laundry owner as a beneficiary, and which he used to embezzle the same amount. He also fraudulently used the bank’s seal with which he stamped the deposit form.

The defendant, referred to as a public employee, has been charged in the Court of First Instance with embezzlement, forgery and use of forged documents and unlawful use of the bank’s seal.

The victim told the investigators that he had called the bank employee around 10am on November 5, 2017. “I was asking about the bank procedure if I wanted to purchase three cars from a laundry owner who had bought them on loans from the bank.

He told me I had to pay the remaining instalments, which would be Dh130,000 after deducting the bank profits. After clearing the bank mortgage, I would become the owner of those cars and could have them registered in my name,” the complainant said during public prosecution investigation.

The next day, he went with the laundry owner to the bank. They met the employee and he paid up the money to him to do the necessary transactions for him.

“I met that employee and paid him Dh130,000 in cash for which he issued me a bank receipt dated November 6, 2017. The receipt stated that I deposited the money in the laundry owner’s name. “However, when I contacted him three days later to see whether the mortgage was cleared, he did not take my calls. About 15 days later, he sent me on WhatsApp picture of a cheque worth Dh130,000 to be withdrawn by the laundry owner on November 29, 2017. He would not send the original cheque.”

The complainant then tried in vain to contact the bank administration to recover his money. He lodged a complaint at Al Qusais police station.

He showed the police officers the conversations he had with the bank employee about paying and depositing the money, and in which the employee falsely claimed he had issued a cheque worth the same amount, in the laundry owner’s name.