An Indian man has been found guilty of stealing 86 expensive watches which are said to be $2 million worth, from a watch and jewellery shop in Gold Souq which is famous in Dubai. He has been sentenced to one year in prison by the Dubai court on Wednesday.
The accused who was a man of 26 years of age had worked as a cleaner and had been accused of stealing as many as 86 expensive watches which is said to be of worth over 8.3 million dirhams which is $2.2 million and the valuables from a watch and jewellery shop where he has been working, as reported by the Khaleej Times.
The report has also said that two Pakistani men who were the cousins of the accused and who were identified as being aged 44 and 25 were also involved in the absentia for possession of the watches that have been stolen, have received an imprisonment of one year each.
The deportation of all the three men has been ordered by the court, after they complete and have served their jail terms.
A complaint has been filed regarding the stolen watches at the Naif police station on the 6th of January where in the owner has mentioned that he was in one of his hops when an Indian salesman has told him that a watch of worth Dh 30,000 was found in its box in the trash bin on the 25th December in the previous year 2019.
The owner has said that on checking the footage that has been recorded in the CCTV cameras of the shops, it was recorded the cleaner taking the watch, putting it in a box and then dropped it in the trash bin so that he could smuggle the expensive watch that he has dropped in the bin, outside the shop later.
The report has said that, when the cleaner has been questioned about the theft, he has confessed that he had stolen two watches which were worth of 250,000 and 270,000 dirhams.
The accused has also confessed that he had sold each of them to a man from Pakistan for 10,000 dirhams and that the Pakistani watch had not yet paid for the second watch.
The defendant had admitted during the investigation of the public prosecution that he had stolen the watches and then had sold the watches to the two accomplices who also knew that the watches were stolen.
According to the report, the ruling can be appealed by the cleaner within 15 days.
