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Two Emirati men were sentenced to five years in jail for posing as Interpol officers and kidnapping a man to a villa in Abu Dhabi before stealing Dh1.7 million in his possession.
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The two Emirati men aged 36 and 37, posed as police officers when they stopped the Indian victim near his workplace at Baniyas in May 2019.
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“One of them showed me papers from the United Nations and claimed that they work for the Interpol. I was carrying Dh1.7 million in a black bag. The money was for my company. I believed they were from Interpol. They took me to the back seat of a car which was nearby. There was another man inside the car,” the 33-year-old Indian victim said in records at the Dubai Court of First Instance.
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He then texted his colleague to say that the police had arrested him.
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The defendants took him to an under-construction villa in Abu Dhabi, and forced him to sit on the ground when a Pakistani defendant who is still at large spoke with him about the bag.
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“They yelled and terrified me before they took the money.”
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However, the defendants were arrested minutes later on their way back to Dubai as the victim’s colleague alerted Dubai Police.
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A 36-year-old Emirati police officer testified that the victim’s friend claimed that unknown men took his friend while he was outside the workplace carrying a bag full with cash.
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“We identified the suspects and arrested the first defendant while he was bringing back the victim from Abu Dhabi to Dubai. He admitted that a Pakistani friend planned the robbery and that they shared the money between them,” said the police officer in records.
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Dubai Police arrested the second defendant while the other two are still at large.
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According to Dubai Public Prosecution, the second defendant admitted to taking his share of the money which was Dh292,000.
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