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Six-month jail for fraud

DUBAI - An Indian salesperson, who was given a cheque by his employer for Dh2, 000 to withdraw money from the bank account of the company he worked for, changed the value of the cheque to Dh20, 000 and pocketed the difference.

S.A.P., 28, was sentenced by the Dubai Court of First Instance to six months in prison and was ordered deported after serving his prison term. The crime was discovered when his employer tried to withdraw Dh40, 000 from the company account and was informed by the bank that there were insufficient funds.

The defendant was not initially suspected of the crime because of his previous record. A review of the counterfoil of the chequebook showed that one transaction of Dh2, 000 did not correspond to the amount withdrawn using the cheque, which was Dh20, 000. The defendant insisted that this must have been a bank's mistake. The defendant also stole a blank cheque and managed to withdraw an additional Dh19, 000 from the company account. The defendant was arrested in mid-October last year.