3-year jail ordered for Kuwaiti – Expat acquitted of fraud

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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 15: The Court of Appeal presided over by Judge Ali Al-Dure’a upheld the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance which suspended the one-year jail term against an expatriate after payment of KD 200 bail bond, and sentenced a citizen to three year imprisonment with hard labor and fined him KD 1,000 over a case related to falsification of documents for theft and impersonation of an oil company employee, says Al-Seyassah.

The Public Prosecution accused the first defendant, a citizen, of pretending to be the sales executive of an oil company which is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and using an official stamp to seal a contract with a major telecommunications company. The deal for which he falsified purchase receipts fetched him mobile phones worth KD 5,600.

The second defendant, an expatriate, was accused of being a part of the deal by giving the stamp to the citizen. The second defendant’s counsel Dr Hana Bujarwa stressed that the documents presented did not include anything that could incriminate her client, thereby insisting on the innocence of her client in the crime. This made the court amend the previous ruling by suspending the oneyear sentence and made him sign an undertaking to show good behavior for a year.

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