Sharjah Police, Civil Defence help family find son

SHARJAH: The Sharjah Police and Civil Defence helped a person who, late at night, called the Central Operations Room asking for help to search for his two-and-a-half-year-old son.

Patrols of Wasit police station and the Civil Defence teams rushed to the scene and searched for the child inside and outside the house but did not find him.

The team then suspected the child might be inside the father’s vehicle in the courtyard of the house. They finally found him inside the trunk, which he closed by mistake.

Immediately, the child was taken by the national ambulance team to Al Qasimi Hospital to have the required tests.

The family of the child praised the efforts of the police, Civil Defence teams and national ambulance.

In a separate case reported by Mohammed Barakat, the Sharjah Criminal Court adjourned the case to summon an Asian storekeeper charged with stealing Dhs11,240 from the safe of a company to April 22.

The court heard the plaintiff, the owner of the company, who testified that the storekeeper informed him he had found the door of the safe broken and that Dhs11,240 were missing.

The owner of the company told the police that lited the fingerprints which matched with the suspect’s.

The owner said he did not know the suspect but was told he was a client of the company.

The Sharjah Criminal Court adjourned to next 23 April to hear witnesses and the Director of the Finance Department, the case of a GCC national charged with accepting a bribe of Dhs200,000, in return for awarding three tenders, according to a report filed by Mohammed Barakat.

The first witness, a policeman, testified the defendant was caught red-handed in a parking area holding the amount which was filmed, besides an amount seized from his vehicle.

The second witness, a policeman, also testified he opened the door of the car on the part of the suspect and saw him holding part of the amount, so he was arrested.

The suspect denied the charge in court claiming he was a procurement officer, having the powers to approve bids and tenders.

He added on the day of the incident, he signed three contracts in his office, adding that the person who he had contracts with threw the money at him ater he handed him the contracts.

He also added he confessed before the Public Prosecutor because the prosecutor made him realise that if he confessed, the issue would end and he would return home without problems.

According to another case reported by Ihab Ata, the Dubai Criminal Court on Wednesday looked into the case of three Asian suspects and three companies charged with offering and accepting bribe, profiting and dispersing about Dhs78m.

The first suspect reportedly has a 20 percent partnership in the victim company working in diesel trade, buying large quantities and selling them to other companies.

The suspect took advantage of the powers he had and contacted the supplying companies. He had deals for the purchase of diesel and marketing them through selling to customers of other companies for a bribe of about Dhs6.5m, to facilitate the sale of more than 20m gallons of diesel without sufficient guarantees, only bank cheques postponed for up to 60 days, causing the victim’s company to lose about Dhs71.786m ater the three companies did not pay for the diesel.

In yet another case reported by Ihab Ata, the Dubai Public Prosecution referred two Asians to the Criminal Court on charges of pre-meditated murder of a colleague on their return from work.

The witness, the victim and the suspects’ colleague, testified that on the day of the incident, ater they finished work, they all decided to return home on foot, with the victim, in an unusual manner, as the suspects lived far away from the victim.

He added on their way to Khaled Bin Al Waleed Street in Bur Dubai, at the pedestrian tunnel near the Hyat Regency Hotel, he received a call and when he finished he heard a scream coming out of the tunnel.

He reportedly hurried in the direction of the sound and found the suspects assaulting the victim, whose head hit the ground, causing his death.