Court Sentenced Five Citizens And A Bedoun To 7 Years Imprisonment For Forging Salary Certificates

The Court of Appeals, presided over by Judge Nasser Al Hayd, annulled the Criminal Court’s verdict which sentenced five citizens and a Bedoun to seven years in prison for forging salary certificates and embezzling KD 80,000 – the value of illegal loans.

Instead, the higher court fined the accused KD 3,000. Two of the accused agreed to bring unqualified loan applicants and issued them fake salary certificates in order to secure a loan.

In return, the applicants paid the two accused a certain percentage of the loan granted which, according to the Public Prosecution, amounted to KD 80,000 through four civil service employees. All of the employees involved in this racket faced charges and they admitted the crime they committed.

They also paid back the loans; thereby, negating the embezzlement and forgery charges. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeals also fined a production company KD 10,000 and ordered it to pay KD 5,001 temporary compensation to music composer Ghannam Al-Dikkan for violating copy rights of his song which was performed in 1979 in an opera house.

According to the production company, it got permission from the Ministry of Information to present Al-Dikkan’s music, and that it made attempts to seek permission from the composer himself before the concert. If the concert was cancelled, the production company would have lost 50 percent of its investment. The court also rejected the production company’s temporary compensation lawsuit against the composer for filing malicious claims against the company.

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