The expatriate man had been working in the shop but was not under its sponsorship.

“This enabled the man to run away with the money, but crime detectives caught him and handed him over to police,” said an informed security source.

In another development, a man posing as a bank officer cheated a Yemeni national working at a perfume shop in Yanbu. Under this guise, the man was able to obtain personal bank information that allowed him to withdraw money from the man’s account.

Police in Yanbu later arrested the impersonator with the support of authorities in Riyadh.