“Asian” is embedded from his company 15 kilograms of gold

The Dubai Criminal Court condemned a person of the nationality of an Asian country by betraying the secretariat of his job and his partnership with two people of the same nationality, and embezzled a large amount of gold, weighing 15 kilograms, and punishing him with imprisonment and fine.

The partner of the accused resorted to the Civil Court in Dubai after the issuance of a final ruling to convict him, and ruled that he had to pay the amount of three million and 150 thousand dirhams for them, in addition to the legal interest, fees and law fees.

The events of the case go back to the beginning of 2024 when two people filed a report to the specialized police station in Dubai, in which the defendant accused of seizing a quantity of gold weighing 15 kilograms of 24 karat owned by them, and its value is about 3.5 million dirhams.

After the investigations of the Public Prosecution, the defendant was referred to the Criminal Court in Dubai on charges of embezzling money and bonds, handing over to him as a matter of trust, and damaging the owners of the right.

The accused was not satisfied with the primary ruling, and he appealed before the Court of Appeal, which refused to appeal and supported the ruling against him, so he resorted to the Court of Cassation, which refused to appeal it in turn, and confirmed the validity of what the criminal judiciary ended, and thus the ruling became final and became.

After the issuance of a final ruling, he was convicted of the accused of the crime of embezzlement, Badra to resort to the Civil Court, noting that he had done direct material losses and severe moral damage, and demanded compensation of 4.5 million dirhams.

The two prosecutors explained in their claims that the amount demanded is distributed between the value of the seized gold (3.5 million dirhams), and additional compensation of one million dirhams for the material and literary damage to them as a result of the criminal act.

They pointed out that they did not cost the loss of gold only, but also losses resulting from the missed investment of this money throughout the period of the conflict, as well as the legal expenses and litigation fees that they incurred during their extended judicial battle.

After the case papers were considered, the court stated in the reasons for its ruling that the responsibility for the harmful act requires the availability of three elements, the person committing the harm of the harmful act positively or negatively, and the damage was proven on the side of the victim, and the establishment of a causal relationship between them, and it has been proven from the criminal ruling that the defendant committed the crime of embezzlement of gold, what the civil court obliges to adhere to it and not to re -research it.

She explained that the criminal ruling acquires a binding authenticity before the civil courts in what he separated a necessary chapter regarding the occurrence of the act, its legal description and its attribution to its actor, pointing out that the defendant caused direct material damage to the plaintiffs by losing the value of gold, in addition to the moral damage of prejudice to the right of ownership and having to the ways of the doors of the judiciary for a long time.

She stated that the elements of damage include physical, material and literary damage, and that the estimated compensation came in comprehensively the losing the plaintiffs and the loss of the prosecutors, as well as the moral damage related to the attack on their rights.

After hearing the pleadings and informing the court on the documents submitted, the Civil Court ruled that the defendant obliges three million and 150 thousand dirhams to the plaintiffs, with an annual interest rate of 5% calculated from the date of the process of the ruling permanently until full payment.