Dubai upholds jail term of a gang for impersonating police officers
Dubai Court of Cassation upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance, which had been previously affirmed by the Court of Appeals.
The verdict sentenced a gang consisting of a Gulf national and five Asians to three years in jail, the deportation of the Asians after serving their sentences, and fining them collectively Dhs1,422,000.
The gangsters allegedly had impersonated police officers, detained the owner of a general trading company and others, assaulted them, and stole the amount of the fine.
The details of the case date back to August 2022 when the owner of a general trading company filed a report stating that he had been assaulted, detained within his workplace, and his money stolen.
He added that a person wearing Gulf attire and others knocked on the company door and upon entering, they claimed to be detectives from Dubai, with one of them briefly showing a military ID card before hiding it.
Shortly after, three more individuals allegedly arrived at the place.
The victim added in the interrogations that the first suspect assaulted him in collaboration with the others. One of them restrained him and his colleague, the second victim, who happened to be present in the company.
They then assaulted them and stole Dhs500,000 from the company safe, along with a camera storage unit.
The second victim stated that he saw one of the suspects assault an employee who had entered the company with Dhs1,200,000. He resisted, but the suspect assaulted and restrained him before all the perpetrators fled the scene.
A police man testified that an investigation team identified the suspects and arrested them, finding Dhs281,000 in their possession.
Four of them admitted during the interrogation that the first and second had asked them to participate in robbing a trading company in the Naif area.
After committing the crime, each received Dhs50,000, while the others confessed to planning the crime and stealing Dhs700,000 from the company, with the seized money being part of the stolen amounts.
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