Seven Days News

Dubai, Dec 13: Two men have been arrested after stealing more than dhs1 million in cash from two bank employees. The Arabic men, who both carried Canadian passports, were arrested in Oman after fleeing the country with the cash. Police revealed yesterday that the men had trailed two bank employees in Dubai who were carrying more than dhs2 million in their car to replenish cash machines across the city.

As they left their car to fill up a machine, they locked more than one million dirhams of cash in the vehicle. When they returned they found one of the car window’s broken and the remaining money missing. Brigadier Khamis Al Muzeina, head of the Criminal Investigation Department at Dubai Police, yesterday hit out at banks for not using specialised security companies to ferry cash across the city.

“It is making the criminals’ lives easier and risking the money and the safety of bank employees,” he said. The thieves were tracked to Oman and arrested there with the cash, police said. One of the men had previously been convicted of theft in the UAE and deported from the country in 2000.

Both men are in custody and are due to face trial on theft charges.