Dubai: Two jobless men have been accused of attacking a tailor in his shop and stealing a bag containing Dh563,000 that his cousin had kept with him for a while in November last year.
The 36-year-old Bangladeshi tailor had put the bag under his desk in his shop in Deira, when two Nigerian men, aged 31 and 28, stormed into his shop armed with scissors at 4.25pm. They threatened and assaulted the tailor with the scissors and escaped from the shop after snatching the bag from him, said records.
The tailor, his coworkers and few friends from neighbouring stores caught one of the assailants while the other absconded with the bag containing money.
Police took the man who had been caught into custody and after investigations the second man was arrested from an apartment in Sharjah.
Prosecutors accused two Nigerians of robbing the tailor.
According to the charges sheet, prosecutors said the two suspects and three others, who remain at large, had planned to rob the tailor’s cousin as they had been following him.
The suspects pleaded not guilty when they defended themselves before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday.
A 35-year-old Bangladeshi man told prosecutors that he had asked him to keep the money with him until he parked his car.
He said: “When I returned to the shop after parking may car, I found that may cousin and some other people had caught one of the suspect and they told me about the incident on which we called the police.”
The tailor told prosecutors that the suspects threatened to kill him with the scissors before they took away the money.
A ruling in the case will be announced on May 22.
