Woman on trial for embezzling more than Dh120,000 in Dubai

Dubai - She had sent the embezzled money to her Filipino-American fiancé she met on the internet and who lived in the US.

A woman in charge of a petrol station has been accused of embezzling Dh124,642 from the business revenues.
Public prosecution records showed the 40-year-old Filipina woman abused her post at the petrol station in Al Twar, Al Qusais, and the trust given to her by her workplace administration to steal money from the safe instead of handing it over to the money transportation vehicle for it to be deposited at the company's bank account.
She faced a charge of embezzlement of public money in the Court of First Instance. Even though the total amount she is accused of embezzling is Dh124,642, she only admitted to stealing Dh111,500. The embezzlement happened from September 13 to September 15.
The supervisor said she had been working for the plaintiff since October 2015 and had been assigned with running the petrol station administratively and financially. "My duties covered collecting revenues of fuel sale in addition to the income from the sale at the store there. I had also to prepare daily reports on the money earned and other reports on the business profits and losses," the defendant told the prosecutor.
At 7:30am on September 17, she went to her workplace and an hour later she was questioned by her manager about the amounts of money she embezzled from the revenues, to which she confessed. She requested to be given some time to return that money.
She also wrote and signed a personal acknowledgement in which she specified how much she embezzled and how she spent it.
The police arrested her at around 2:00pm at her workplace. She was taken to Al Rafaa police station and was later referred to Al Qusais police station where she was placed in detention. She admitted that she stole the money from the safe using the key she had been entrusted with on three days. She claimed to interrogators she had sent the embezzled money to her Filipino-American fiancé she met on the internet and who lived in the US.
She said that she wanted to support him financially but she regretted it now and felt she had made a big mistake. She confessed to public prosecution investigators she was the person caught on CCTV camera stealing money from the safe on three different occasions.
A PRO, with a Comoros Islands passport, said he learned that the accused had sent the money to a man she had met online. "Even after her confession, there was still an amount of Dh13,142 missing from the revenues and accounted for."
The trial will continue on January 10.
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