Arab man to learn fate in fraud case

TDT | Manama

The Supreme Criminal Court recently adjourned the case of an Arab national, who is accused of fraud, to announce the verdict on Thursday. On January 13 earlier this year, the accused was charged by the Public Prosecution of using the electronic signature of the claimant, after supplying his bank card and its PIN code to a company for a fraudulent purpose, which was to illegally obtain certain amounts of money.

The Public Prosecution also charged the accused with illegal residency, as he had not renewed his residence permit issued by the General Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs that would qualify him to legally reside in Bahrain.

Court files showed that the incident took place when the General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security was tipped off by an owner of a carpentry company.

The informant told the cops that the accused purchased BD4,000 and asked to withdraw BD10,000 from his credit card and to return BD6,000 in cash. The accused was ambushed by the company owner, in cooperation with the police and the financial institution.

According to the files, the financial company was contacted and asked to cooperate in the arrest of people who carry out these illegal operations, and accordingly an Arabian Gulf national was contacted to bring in the accused for fraudulent operations.

The accused went to the shop with the amount and brought three credit cards belonging to different banks, all of which did not bear his name. He completed a transaction using each card in the amount of BD100,000.

Additionally, the accused used a card belonging to a Saudi bank and carried out two transactions; the first with a value of BD970, and the second with a value of BD97,000, and the two transactions were accepted.