Lawyer loses appeal over forged debt claim
TDT | Manama
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A forged debt claim by a lawyer against his former client has ended in a prison sentence and the loss of the falsified document, after the Court of Cassation upheld the lower rulings.
The lawyer was convicted of faking a debt acknowledgment for BD1,000 and attributing it to his client, claiming the money was a loan.
Prosecutors said he forged the signature on the document, knew it was false, and then used it to claim money that had originally been entrusted to him in his legal role.
The funds had been given to him to handle the client’s case against a previous employer.
The Lower Criminal Court sentenced him to one year in prison for all connected charges, set bail at BD100 to suspend the sentence, and ordered the forged document to be seized.
The lawyer appealed, and the High Criminal Court of Appeal reduced the sentence to six months after acquitting him of embezzling the client’s money.
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