Sharjah: Employee jailed for forging invoices and seizing 48,000 Dhs

Sharjah Criminal Court sentenced an Asian employee of a company in the industrial zone (an IT engineer) to six years in prison and deportation from the country, after he was found to have forged official documents and used them to seize money estimated at 48,000 dirhams. He also bribed another employee with a thousand dirhams and a mobile phone, in addition to 50 percent of any seized money to be agreed upon.

The details of the incident reveal that a staff member stated that a colleague working in the sales department asked him to cancel sales invoices from the company’s accounting system, since he is a computer engineer who is competent and able to access the special billing list. He tried to persuade him to participate in the embezzlement process, in return for giving him 50 percent of the value of every bill to be cancelled.

He said that the invoices enabled the accused to forge the amounts collected from them, amounting to 48 thousand dirhams -ten bills- indicating that the convicted came to his home in a neighboring emirate, trying to convince him to work, but he refused, and told the court that the phone and the money are in his possession, to be given to the competent authority, since he refuses to receive any bribe.