DOHA: Two men have been accused of robbing a jewellery store by entering through a hole they drilled in the wall of a tailoring shop next door.
The robbers then managed to deactivate surveillance cameras installed inside the jewellery store making sure that the cameras did not capture their pictures.
The duo also did not leave any finger prints to leave behind clues that would put the police on their trail.
They were, however, nabbed by the law-enforcement agencies.
The shop located next to the robbed jewellery stores was that of a tailor and it was he who called the police after he spotted a mysterious hole in a wall of his shop.
The robbery, according to details available, had taken place after 11pm on a Thursday when the tailor said he closed the shop and went home.
He told the police during investigation that he happened to visit his shop for a while the next morning — a Friday — and as he entered he saw, to his utter shock, that there was a hole in the wall.
And so he immediately called the police. A criminal court is trying the case. In a separate incident, investigations are on into allegations about a private company employee having forged the signature of the owner to acquire some work visas which he sold.
The accused person worked in the finance department of a private company and he got seven work visas issued for the company and later sold them.
At least five people from an Arab country managed to land here on the visas acquired by the accused through forgery.
The accused is also alleged to have issued no-objection certificates so those who landed here on these visas so that they could get jobs elsewhere.
Later, it was discovered that the signatures on the application forms for the work visas were forged and the director of the company who was supposed to sponsor the workers hadn’t signed the documents, and knew nothing about it.
The signatures had been allegedly forged by the accused, who also admitted to having stolen the company’s stamp.
He confessed that he sold the visas, Al Arab reported yesterday.
The Peninsula
