Arun Kumar, 38, a resident of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, had big dreams in his eyes when he landed in Abu Dhabi as an accountant but his greed to get rich fast gave his success story a criminal twist, forcing law enforcement agencies in those countries to declare him a fugitive and seeking help from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hunt him down.
He used to work for Fibrex LLC Abu Dhabi as an accountant in charge of staff salary. The company filed a complaint against him to the local law enforcement agency that while working as an accountant in 2018, he allegedly misappropriated funds from his employer company by manipulating the company’s digital systems.
He allegedly accessed the server of Fibrex company without permission and made modifications to the contents and data by reactivating the names of former employees of the company. He used the forged documents by sending them to banks managing accounts of the company and urged them to transfer the amounts to the respective bank accounts of the said staff members by deducting them from the company’s accounts, the complaint said.
As part of his embezzlement plan, Arun Kumar deceived bank employees into issuing debit cards in the name of former employees, whose services had been terminated. He managed to receive the cards issued in the name of former employees and used them to withdraw the value of salaries that were transferred to the accounts linked to the debit cards based on the forged documents. The UAE authorities said that Arjun Kumar’s wrongdoings caused the company a loss of AED 253,629 (Rs 57 lakh). However, before the trial against him could be completed by the Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance (Misdemeanor Chamber), Kumar managed to flee the country in 2019, allegedly to Malaysia. He was sentenced in absentia to an imprisonment of three years and deportation from the country. The UAE Embassy has sought help from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs which, in turn, has asked the CBI to file a case and proceed against the Jhunjuhunu man. The federal agency has registered an FIR against Arun Kumar, son of Madhu Sudan Kumar, under penal provisions dealing with cheating and falsification of accounts. According to an official note, now, the CBI is planning to investigate the case for local prosecution and brief the MEA to inform the UAE Embassy about the progress.