Bahrain ex-minister arrested for refusing to pay his son’s widow, granddaughter

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

One more ex-minister is facing the music in Bahrain, days after another had his jail terms in a dud cheque case. This time around, the ex-minister is in the dock for illegal possession of amounts, which a court ruling found was rightfully owned by his son’s widow and his granddaughter.

The ex-ministers son’s widow proved her right to the money ten years ago in a court case. The lawsuit accused the ex-minister of refusing to pay the woman and her daughter their share in a real estate company, villa and a shop owned by her husband.

The lawsuit demanded paying the woman and her daughter 48,000 dinars from the proceeds of a villa and a shop in Isa Town from September 2012 to December 2020.

BD9,248 being the woman’s share, and the remaining BD 38,844 her daughter’s. Similarly, from July 2009 to December 2020, the woman and her daughter demanded the ex-minister pay 141,570 dinars. (BD 27,225 for the woman and 114,345 dinars for her daughter).

The woman had also filed another lawsuit demanding the ex-minister and his two daughters to pay their share from the profit of a real estate company owned by her husband.

Following trials, the court ordered the minister and his two daughters to pay 108,420 dinars to the woman and her daughter. The new case surfaces a few days after Tribune reported that a former minister received prison terms of two-and-a-half years in a dud-cheque case after Bahrain’s Court of Appeal upheld a previous ruling. The appeals court upheld two earlier rulings after finding him guilty of issuing dud cheques with bad intentions.

The ex-minister got into trouble after issuing a cheque of 160,000 dinars ($427,000) to his friend, which got bounced. The court also upheld a six-month jail term for issuing another cheque of 18,300 dinars ($49,000) to a commercial establishment, which also got bounced.