DUBAI // A man who broke into a mobile phone shop and stole more than Dh125,000 worth of memory cards has had his two-year jail sentence upheld by Dubai Court of Appeal.
Unemployed Nigerian A Z, 22, confessed in September to taking 8,312 memory cards.
Records show that on September 1 last year, the owner of the mobile shop saw the door to his shop broken and called police.
“It was 9am. I checked the items inside and found that 8,312 memory cards of different capacities worth Dh127,567 were stolen,” said Iranian K A, 51.
“I checked the cameras I had in the shop and saw an African man carrying out the robbery at exactly 4.53am.”
The Nigerian was found to be already detained in relation to a different robbery. He was questioned and confessed to stealing the cards, with the help of another man, who remains at large.
He will be deported after completing his jail term.
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