DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced four expatriates, including two women, to five year imprisonment for forging bank documents and embezzlement. The court has also ordered the first and second accused to together pay a fine of QR1.735m. In addition, the first accused will have to return another QR1.735m to the bank.
According to the court order, three of the accused will be deported to their respective home countries, once they complete their jail term, Al Sharq reported.
The court ordered the employer to sack the first accused, a bank employee, from his job. The first, second and fourth accused will be deported after completing the period of imprisonment and all forged documents will be confiscated.
A witness to the case, who is also a bank employee, deposed before the court that she saw one of the female accused coming to the bank with the third accused, who is an account holder in a another branch of the same bank.
“The accused was in a veil and wanted to withdraw money. She requested for a counter cheque, saying she doesn’t have a permanent cheque book yet. The amount demanded was QR900,000. I handed it over to the third accused,” the witness told the court.
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