Forger Acquitted

The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which acquitted a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of forging his name and citizenship. The Court of First Instance had earlier sentenced the suspect to threeyear imprisonment but the verdict was overturned by the appellate court which acquitted the defendant. According to the case file, the name and citizenship in the work ID of the suspect, who is an employee of border security, differed from the data in his Kuwaiti civil ID. This resulted in entry of false information about the suspect in the relevant database. This was aimed for him to escape without being arrested due to travel ban issued against him for nonpayment of debts. The defense counsel Lawyer Mohammad Al-Khaldi appealed the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance, explaining that his client did not commit any forgery as he has Saudi citizenship as well as Kuwaiti citizenship. For his border employee ID, he had submitted the Saudi documents that belonged to him and not any other individual. This means there was no crime of forgery. Concerning the differences in the names mentioned in the Saudi documents and Kuwaiti documents, Lawyer Al-Khaldi said such things sometimes happen and the name might be registered differently from one employee to another such that one employee might mention the full family name while another may not. He stressed that the confiscated documents are correct and they belong to his client, adding that no other ID cards with fake information were found with his client.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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