Greed to win a raffle draw was the undoing of a gang of thieves who stole jewellery from duty free shops at the airports in the region.
The raffle ticket ‘drop’ by HB, Armenian who dressed and behaved like a woman, helped Dubai Police identify him and later his two accomplices.
The thieves had entered a duty free shop at the airport in Dubai and pretended not to know each other.
The salesmen showed each a number of jewellery pieces.
Each managed to steal some of the pieces when the other two were distracting his attention.
The passengers then left the Dubai Airport to another Arab country with their booty as transit passengers too, according to police transfer sheet.
The three were careful not to leave a trace their entry to any country they targeted to commit thefts at the duty free.
However, they forgot that one of them actually registered his name in the raffle coupon.
Police received a complaint from a jewellery shop at the Airport’s Duty Free about the missing jewelleries worth about Dh300,000 value.
Checking the recordings of the video cameras at the Duty Free, the police suspected three passengers, two were women and the third looked like a man, who dressed and behaved like a woman.
The cameras also showed that the three passengers bought electronics from one of the shops and that one of the suspects – the man who dressed and walked, like a woman, had filled a coupon using his name and nationality and dropped it in the raffle draw box.
Police checked the names in all coupons and found that only HB was a visitor whereas the rest were UAE residents.
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