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Two aviation porters claimed in court Monday that their hardship forced them to steal tens of electronics from the airport’s Dnata warehouses, to sell for cash.

Prosecutors accused the Filipino suspects, 33-year-old A.S. and 28-year-old M.D., of abusing their jobs as porters at Dubai International Airport and stealing electronic items that from Dnata’s warehouses.
When the suspects appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance, they pleaded guilty.

When Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi asked the defendants on what they did with the stolen electronics, A.S. replied: “We are dearly sorry sir and we resent what we did… we were in a very needy situation. We needed money to support our families.”

A Syrian safety officer at the airport said Dnata received tens of complaints from clients who could not collect their electronic items from the warehouses.

“The clients mainly complained that electronics were emptied from the parcels and taken away from the warehouses. I checked the surveillance cameras and spotted A.S. using a forklift to move the cargo boxes [that contained the electronics] from one spot to another that is out of the range of surveillance cameras. Then he would hide behind the boxes so that he could not be seen.

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