| Fadley Faisal |

A CUSTOMER relations clerk at a car dealership was sentenced by the Magistrate’s Court to nine months’ jail after she pleaded guilty to stealing lucky draw gifts from the company yesterday.

DPP Amiriah binti Haji Ali informed Senior Magistrate Azrimah binti Haji Abdul Rahman that 26-year-old Ani Rabiatuladawiyah binti Azamain was told to prepare a list of lucky draw gifts before they were distributed to customers, sometime between December 2018 and February this year.

On the morning of March 14, a company sales manager discovered that some of the winning customers had not received their gifts, but instead received cash. It was also found that the gifts had gone missing.

Internal investigations revealed that the defendant had stolen an iPhone XR 128, a Rose Gold iPad Pro 10.5″ 64GB WiFi, and a Samsung Galaxy Note 128GB.

The items are worth an estimated BND3,000. The company’s management ordered the defendant to compensate their loss within two weeks. However, she failed to do so and a police report was lodged, leading to the defendant’s prosecution in court.

The defendant also admitted to giving cash to the customers after stealing the gifts.