Salesman sells firm's cooking oil worth Dhs419,000 and keeps all money to himself in Dubai

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Misdemeanor Court sentenced an Asian sales representative to six months in jail and fined him Dhs419,000 for abusing his power and embezzling the same amount of the fine from a company he was working for.

He will be deported after serving his jail term

The case dates back to last year when an accountant in a food trading company discovered sums that had not been returned by a sales representative working in the company.

According to the accountant’s statement, the final statement of the company’s fiscal year showed a deficit of Dhs419,000.

After checking the company’s statements and invoices, the accountant found that an amount was credited to the account of a sales representative who had been working in the company since 2006.

The sales representative was confronted with the credited amount and asked to return the amount to the company but he refused to do so and denied that he possessed the money.

A complaint was then filed accordingly with the police.

According to the official documents, the report of an expert delegated by the court showed that the sales representative had embezzled Dhs419,000, this being the price of cooking oil that he supplied to a customer against cash received under a signed receipt but never returned to the company.

On interrogation, the representative had to confess to having embezzled the money after he had been confronted with the expert’s report and the receipt he signed against the price of the cooking food that had been supplied to another firm.