Instead of informing her superiors about the bag or giving it to the Lost-and-Found section at Terminal 3 of the airport, she kept it to herself.
A woman taxi driver stood trial in the Court of First Instance on Tuesday on the charge of stealing a handbag left behind by a passenger in her car after she gave him a ride from Dubai International Airport to Jumeirah.
The 27-year-old Bangladeshi, identified as S.C., allegedly found the handbag shortly before she finished her shift. Instead of informing her superiors about the bag or giving it to the Lost-and-Found section at Terminal 3 of the airport, she kept it to herself.
According to the prosecution records, she took it home and hid it in the closet. When she was summoned by the airport security, she called her husband on phone and told him to hide the handbag. Her husband, M.A., a 34-year-old Bangladeshi driver, and another compatriot, a tailor, 48, S.A., also stood in the dock charged with possessing a stolen property. The complainant, a 58-year-old Sudanese visitor, rode with his family in the cab driven by S.C. around 1.30am on January 9 to go to a hospital in Jumeirah. His wife was taken in an ambulance to that hospital.
He discovered later that he had forgotten the bag in the taxi he took from the airport. He informed the police and reported the incident to the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). He later filed a complaint at the airport police post.
He gave the descriptions of the woman driver. He told the police that his handbag contained $10,128 and 14,195 Saudi riyals in addition to other amounts of different currencies and important documents and certificates. S.C. admitted during investigation to embezzling the bag. She confessed that she had instructed her husband to hide it for her. The police found a mobile phone in her closet which she admitted she had stolen after another passenger who had forgotten it in her car. The handbag was found with S.A.
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