Dubai: Bakery employee illegally seizes 18.2 million dirhams from his workplace

Public Prosecution accused an Arab employee who worked in a bakery of embezzling 18 million and 200,000 dirhams from his work place, along with three other defendants, two of whom are Asian and the third is an Arab, who all helped him commit his crime by agreeing to forge documents and official seals.

The head of the bakery stated in the prosecution investigation that the main defendant in this case, the first defendant, who is 50 years old, was able to embezzle the said amount after exploiting his authority to run the bakery’s economic department, pointing out that the bakery has a factory and warehouses in ​​Al Quoz area, and an administrative office in Al Karama.

The same witness stated that the accused had forged the seal of the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, and the “UAE Dirham Document” for government transactions, bank receipts, and deposit slips, he then submitted them to his office after changing the financial values, together with three other defendants involved in the crime, through helping him in forging documents, and facilitating the passage of transactions without sufficient scrutiny.

The witness also told the prosecutor that the discovery of the crime came after the auditor realized the falsification of documents and the existence of different accounts, which raised the importance of using an accounting company, eventually resulting in the discovery in the disappearance of 18 million and two hundred thousand dirhams after thorough checks.