19 people charged with embezzling over Dhs183.6 million from law firm in Dubai

  • Date: 01-Jul-2021
  • Source: Gulf Today
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:UAE
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19 people charged with embezzling over Dhs183.6 million from law firm in Dubai

The Dubai Public Prosecution referred 19 people of different nationalities, four of whom are still at large, to the Criminal Court on charges of embezzling Dhs183.66 million from a law firm. The defendants were accused of forging official documents and using them to establish 4 administrative and legal consultancy firms in several countries to seize the funds of an office they worked in. The case dated back to 2017, when the owner of a Gulf law firm discovered that the prime suspect an office manager), along with the other defendants, tampered with the profits of his office. They forged the final statement of profits and other documents stating the loss of a legal consultancy proxy belonging to an international company. An entrance of the Dubai Courts. The owner of the office filed a complaint in which he accused his office manager and a number of employees of forging documents and establishing legal consultancy offices in four countries with the aim of fraudulently seizing the money of his office from the clients of his office. According to the official documents, the Dubai Public Prosecution levelled seven charges to the defendants including embezzlement of Dhs183.66 million owned by the law office through