Court of Appeal sets June 15 hearing in forged signature case

TDT | Manama

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Former parliamentary office worker sentenced to suspended jail term after conviction over falsified document dispute

A Bahraini court has set June 15 as the date for hearing appeals in a case involving a woman convicted of forging a signature on an official parliamentary document used to cancel her secondment from a Member of Parliament’s office.

The First High Criminal Court of Appeal will hear arguments in the case after the defendant was previously sentenced to one year in prison by a lower court. The sentence was suspended for three years, and the court ordered the confiscation of the forged document.

According to court records, the woman—who had been seconded to work in the office of a member of Bahrain’s Council of Representatives—was found guilty of falsifying a secondment cancellation form by imitating the MP’s signature and submitting it to official authorities.

The court said the offences were part of a single criminal plan and closely linked, applying penalties for the most serious charge under Article 66 of Bahrain’s Penal Code. It also cited mitigating factors, including the complainant MP’s waiver of his complaint, which led to a reduced sentence under Article 72.

The court further suspended the prison term, citing the defendant’s circumstances and what it described as her low likelihood of reoffending, under Articles 81 and 83 of the Penal Code.

The Public Prosecution said the defendant worked with an unidentified individual to forge the document and knowingly used it by submitting it to terminate her secondment.