DUBAI // Two Sudanese visitors were sentenced to five years each for stealing Dh242,500 from a Lebanese businessman five years ago, a Dubai court said.
KE, 32, denied the charges before the Dubai Court of First Instance in January while his accomplice AH, 48, refused to come to court.
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Records stated that BW, 27, was stepping out of a bank on the Sheikh Zayed Road in December 2006 with an envelope full of cash when one of the men told him that his car's back tyre was burst.
BW walked back to check the tyre, and while he was distracted, the other man took the envelope from under the driver's seat, where he had placed it. He told prosecutors both men then ran away.
BW called the Bur Dubai Police station. When KE and AH were arrested, KE narrated the details of the theft and said his role was only to drive the getaway car, while AH and others stole the money.
salamir@thenational.ae
