Fake robbery: Arab salesman loses plea
An Arab salesman, who deliberately stabbed his tummy with a knife in a bid to manipulate investigations into a BD13,000 embezzlement case, lost his appeal against his sentence.
He was earlier sentenced to three years behind bars, followed by immediate deportation. The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected his appeal against the initial ruling.
The defendant reportedly wanted to pocket the aforementioned amount belonged to his employer. So he concocted a fake robbery story in a bid to avoid suspicions, according to court files.
He reportedly jabbed his tummy with a knife to support his claims of that the money was stolen in an armed robbery. Court files revealed that the man approached the police with his shirt that was torn and bleeding from his tummy because of a knife wound.
He told prosecutors that two masked men had stolen BD13,000 from him after they assaulted him.
“I was walking and suddenly two strangers confronted me, with one was holding a metal pipe and the other a knife. They asked me to give the money, which was in my possession. But I refused,” the salesman had said in his statement. “One of them stabbed me with a knife, while the other man stroke me with the pipe.”
“I lost my conscious when they put a tissue with an anaesthetic agent on my face. When I woke up I found that the money I had collected from my employer’s clients was robbed,” he added.
But the defendant later admitted that the money was hidden at his home.
The salesman claimed that he had fabricated such a story in an attempt to ‘bring public attention to the struggles of salesmen while performing their regular duties’.
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