Forged school invoice scheme

TDT | Manama

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A Ministry of Education employee, who investigators say admitted contracting with his wife’s company, will stand trial with two Asian nationals on 22 September over an alleged forged-invoice scheme tied to a school’s budget.

Prosecutors have sent the trio to the High Criminal Court on charges that include seizing and helping to seize public funds, altering data in the ministry’s electronic system, and forging and using private documents.

The case began after the ministry filed a complaint based on an administrative inquiry at a school.

Bills

The committee found suspect bills attributed to commercial entities that trade with the school and said the school’s head of administrative and financial affairs had tampered with the ministry’s finance system and falsified invoices.

The Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Prosecution took testimony from the inquiry chair and asked the National Audit Office (NAO) to check if the school’s contracts followed proper steps, to assess any loss to school funds, and to identify who was responsible and how the papers were forged.

Prosecutors also obtained an order to lift bank secrecy.