Arab salesman gets jail for embezzlement

DT News Network

Manama

An Arab salesman who deliberately stabbed his tummy with a knife in a bid to manipulate investigations into a BD13,000 embezzlement case was sentenced to one month in jail.  The defendant reportedly wanted to pocket the amount, which belonged to his employer and sketched a fake robbery story in a bid to avoid suspicions, according to court files.  

He reportedly jabbed his tummy with a knife to support his claims that the money was stolen in an armed robbery. Court files revealed that the man went to the police with his torn shirt. He was bleeding from his tummy because of a knife wound. 

He told prosecutors that two masked men had stolen BD13,000 from him after they had assaulted him. "I was walking and suddenly two strangers confronted me. One was holding a metal pipe and the other a knife. They asked me to give the money, which was in my possession. But I refused to part with it,” the salesman said in his statement.  

"Then, one of them stabbed me with a knife, while the other man stroke me with the pipe. I lost my conscious later when they put a tissue with an anesthetic agent on my face. When I woke up I found out that the money (BD13,000) which I had collected from my employer's clients was robbed,” he explained.  

But later the defendant admitted to concocting the story and revealed that the money was hidden at his home. He claimed that he had fabricated the incident in a bid to 'invite public attention to the struggles of salesmen while performing their regular duties'. 

He will be deported after his jail term. His case is now being heard before the High Criminal Appeals Court after he challenged the High Criminal Court's verdict.