The Dubai Criminal Court has imprisoned 10 people for 3 months for inflating company petrol bills.
They were also fined AED 150,000 for theft and embezzlement and will be deported after serving sentence.
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The main convict, who works for a vehicle maintenance company used the company’s fuel card and connived with the company’s PRO to manipulate the fuel bills which were issued from a petrol station.
The company’s auditor suspected the two which prompted him to file a report with the police.
A team of investigators then checked statements of the company’s fuel card used by the accused at a petrol station.
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By accessing footage of the surveillance cameras at the petrol station, the company’s PRO was seen receiving envelopes after using the company’s fuel card.
The workers admitted of a deal to take 20 per cent of the fuel’s value.
