Five jailed over BD75,000 bank fraud in Bahrain

TDT | Manama

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The First High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling sentencing an Egyptian defendant and two others to five years in prison after convicting them of fraudulently obtaining more than BD 75,000 from a bank using forged documents.

According to case details, the defendants posed as government employees and submitted forged salary certificates and bank statements to obtain vehicle loans, taking advantage of the bank’s reliance on unverified applicant information.

The court stated that the first defendant falsely claimed to be a doctor with a monthly salary of BD 2,000, while the other two claimed to be engineers in government entities with salaries of BD 1,700 each, supported by forged documents and seals attributed to the Ministries of Health and Works.

Based on these documents, the first defendant obtained a vehicle worth BD 29,500, the second a vehicle worth BD 16,700, and the third two vehicles worth BD 29,700. The defendants later defaulted on repayments, and it was discovered that the vehicles had been taken out of Bahrain.

The court found them guilty of forging official and private documents and using them to defraud the bank and unlawfully obtain funds.

The court also ordered the confiscation of the forged documents and the permanent deportation of the defendants after serving their sentences.