DUBAI // Three men are accused of stealing Dh745,000 worth of mobile phones, including 17 that are gold plated, from a retailer, Dubai Criminal Court heard on Thursday.
Prosecutors charged Pakistanis K K, 32, and 29-year-old SK, as well as Afghan K A, 22, with stealing 117 LG mobiles, 17 gold-plated iPhones, 15 Novo phones, 183 Samsung Galaxy phones, 51 HTCs, 51 Sonys, 24 Huweis, and 51 iPads, valued at a total of Dh745,633. The trio deny the charge.
Afghan L S, 28, testified that when he headed to the phone shop in Naif on the morning of June 17 he noticed that the door was broken.
“It was 7am and the guard told me that our shop had been robbed,” L S said.
“I checked the place and saw that the locks were broken and the cutter the defendants used to damage the locks was left behind. I gave it to police.”
Checking surveillance cameras, L S said that the three defendants carried out the robbery at about 3am.
Police arrested K K on July 14 after investigations confirmed his involvement in the robbery and, during questioning, he named the other two.
Prosecutors said that K K and S K confessed, while K A turned out to have a long history in similar crimes.
A verdict is due on November 24.
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