Judicial employee jailed for embezzling Dh629,939

This is the second case of its kind this year.

The Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday sentenced Indian office boy K.A.K., 51, to five years in prison for criminal complicity in pocketing Dh629,939 from the court's inheritance section.

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The judge ordered the man to return the embezzled money and fined him Dh629,939. In case of default the convict he will have to serve one day in prison for every 100 dirhams.

The inheritance of three deceased citizens was misappropriated by the convict and his accomplice, M.S.M., an Egyptian national working in the inheritance section. The accomplice, however, fled the country before he could be questioned by police.

Money left by the deceased, A.K.A., A.R.M. and A.M.A., all UAE nationals, for their families, was found to be missing earlier this year.

It was only when family members went to the inheritance section to claim their inheritance that they were told their funds had already been paid to another person who claimed to be acting on behalf of the heir.

In another case of a similar nature, the court had sentenced on June 19 a fine collector of the Dubai Courts Department to three years in prison for embezzling Dh319,975 of public money. The man was ordered to return the money he had stolen and was fined Dh319,975 by the judge. The court acquitted a second court employee, a cashier, charged in the same case with embezzling public funds. The Finance Department of the Dubai Courts Department had discovered a shortfall in the accounts of one of its sections following an audit and referred the cashier-in-charge of that section and one of the fine collectors to the public prosecution.

It was discovered that the fine collector, Y.M.N., used to collect traffic fines from offenders and issue paper receipts, but but did not record the payments on the computer files and pocketed the collected money.

The offence was uncovered only when several irate people filed complaints that their fines were still marked as unpaid on their official traffic record despite the fact that they had made the payment.

As a result of the complaints received by the courts, an audit of the section concerned was conducted. It was found that the funds had in fact been embezzled.