Businessman faces trial ‘after evading land registration fee’

A businessman was recently referred to the Public Prosecution after being accused of attempting to invade paying land registration fee to the government while buying a property, Tribune has learnt. The case came to light when the suspect approached the Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) to register a land he had recently bought from a Bahraini woman.

At SLRB, the man didn’t reveal that he had bought the land from the woman, instead, he claimed that the latter is his cousin and had granted him the land, hiding the fact that he paid for the said land, hoping that he could evade paying any fees to the bureau. Following the rules and regulations, the SLRB employee requested the suspect to prove his relation to the seller by presenting the official documents that confirms it, according to Prosecutors.

The suspect then provided the employee with the identity cards of his mother and the seller’s mother, who according to his claim are sisters. However, the last names of both women (mothers) didn’t match and the suspect was interrogated by the bureau and later referred to the Public Prosecution, after being accused of infringement of public money and forging official documents. No further details on the suspect’s nationality were available.