DUBAI // A worker who stole a pack of Marlboro with one cigarette inside and a bottle of lotion from an aircraft he was cleaning was handed a suspended three-month jail term on Sunday.
But Dubai Criminal Court ordered that the Nepalese defendant, 25, be deported after he returned Dh300 to his employer.
The defendant worked for Dnata and stole the cigarette, a bottle of lotion and Dh311 that was left behind by a passenger on March 19. He hid the stolen items in his clothes but was caught as he tried to leave the airport.
In April, he denied a charge of theft.
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