Dubai: A man stole shaving gel, vitamins and Viagra from a pharmacy where he worked as a security guard, heard a court on Wednesday.
A customer called up the pharmacy and informed the pharmacist, who attended the call, that he lost his mobile phone while shopping at the pharmacy in Al Nahda area.
After the client told the Indian pharmacist that he suspected that the 23-year-old Pakistani security guard must have stolen his phone, according to records, the pharmacist went to check the guard’s backpack.
When he opened the backpack, he found inside several items that had been taken off the pharmacy’s shelves such as shaving gel, Viagra pills and vitamins.
Upon confronting the guard with the items, the latter claimed that he had purchased them from another pharmacist during an earlier shift.
The Indian reported the matter to the police when he realised that the Pakistani guard had stolen items from the pharmacy earlier this month.
The prosecutors charged the suspect with stealing from his workplace.
The suspect pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
“I did not steal those products … somebody put them in my bag. I don’t know how or when,” the suspect contended before presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi.
The pharmacist testified to prosecutors that he checked the suspect’s bag after the customer called and told him that he suspected that the guard had stolen his phone.
“I checked his bag and found that he had taken several products. He claimed to me that he had purchased them from another pharmacist during an earlier shift. When I checked with my co-worker, he denied that he had sold any products to the suspect. When I asked him about the customer’s missing phone, he took it out from his bag and gave it to me,” he told prosecutors.
A ruling will be heard on June 6.
