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Maid steals Dh1m from safe as housewife works out
DUBAI — An Ethiopian maid allegedly robbed more than Dh1 million and valuable jewellery from her sponsor and gave the cash to a runaway, the Court of First Instance heard on Thursday.
The maid, 30, was charged with robbery.
According to the prosecution, the incident happened in October last year at a time when the housewife, for whom the maid worked, was working out in the living room around 2pm.
The maid opened the safe in the bedroom and stole the money and jewellery. She took a cab and met her runaway accomplice and another man. They drove her to Rashidiya in their car.
The runaway gave back Dh200,000 to keep with her but took it back from her the next morning. She was given Dh3,000 and dropped at an apartment of Ethiopian women. The runaway told her that he would leave for Ethiopia soon and promised to buy a house for her in her country.
A police sergeant said they arrested the maid shortly later from her flat after receiving a complaint about a robbery in an Al Quoz house. The maid admitted that the stolen sum and jewellery were with the runaway and his friend. She claimed she only had Dh3,000 but Dh 3,680 was found in her purse which she admitted was from the stolen money.
By the time the police arrived in the runaway’s house in Jebel Ali, he had fled. The police learnt that that he bought two cars from a showroom in Sharjah with the stolen money.
Part of the money and the jewellery were recovered from a woman and three other men, all Ethiopians. The defendant had left them with them to transfer later to Ethiopia. They claimed that they had no idea that they were stolen.
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