Six to face trial in Bahrain for hacking ePayment website, clearing dues using fake payments

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Six people are in the dock for carrying out fictitious payments by hacking an ePayment system to clear their dues with a government agency.

They will face trial before the High Criminal Court starting on the 4th of January 2022. All of the suspects are now in pretrial detention. One of the suspects was on the run, and police arrested him from a Gulf Country by issuing an international arrest warrant.

The Gulf country (name not disclosed) handed him over to Bahrain police for facing trial. Police interrogated him with the rest of the suspects in the Kingdom and charged them with electronic fraud and misrepresentation of information technology system data.

The suspects used a foreign bank abroad for making fake payments after hacking their electronic payment key. However, all the fictitious payment transactions were detected and stopped.

Case files say the police opened an investigation based on a complaint registered by the government agency through Public Prosecution.

The head of the Capital Governorate Prosecution said the suspects tampered with the digital link of the electronic payment site to carry out fake payments and clear their dues.

Investigators gathered evidence from the specialists of the government e-Payment website and the financial company responsible for validating the transactions received through the e-Payment website.

The head of the Capital Governorate Prosecution said the Public Prosecution is determined to confront firmly any violation of information technology systems and called on everyone to maintain the confidentiality of electronic key data and not to disclose it to others.