A 33-year-old hotel employee in Dubai is facing charges after allegedly stealing some Dh252, 245, worth of guests’ security deposits by forging reclaim forms.
Based on the documents from the Dubai Court of First Instance, the Filipino employee worked at the hotel’s accounting section, allowing him access to the documents, Khaleej Times reported.
Reportedly, the crime was only discovered when the Egyptian manager of the hotel received a letter from the bank, informing them about many money transfers from the hotel’s account to the same credit card.
The accused allegedly scanned the original form and then alter it by replacing the number of the guest’s bankcard with his own credit card number.
He would send the altered copy to the bank where our hotel account is deposited. The bank would later send the amount to the defendant’s credit card account.”
Internal investigations revealed that the Filipino worker embezzled a total of Dh252,245 between November 2017 and July 2018.