Two security guards involved in stealing Dhs1.3m electric items

The Public Prosecution referred five Asian men to Dubai Criminal Court after being charged with stealing seven transformers, several electric cables and other electric items costing Dhs1,343,642 from two plants of a utilities authority in the Dubai Industrial City.

Two security guards teamed up with two countrymen to steal Dhs1.3m electric items.

The second defendant, who is working as a security guard, helped the third and fourth defendant to accomplish the mission. Prosecutors accused an Asian scrap dealer of purchasing the items from the gang while aware they resulted from the heist. An Emirati engineer from the utilities authority narrated that the command and control room alerted them that the power plants had malfunctioned. “I went and found the items stolen,” he said.

The third and fourth defendants admitted that they rewarded the guards with Dhs45,000.