2 men get 3-year term for bribery charges

dubai — Two men, a Pakistani and an Indian, together with other runaway accomplices, who offered a bribe to a bank employee in exchange for getting them approval on loans from his administration, have each been sentenced to three years in jail.

The Court of First Instance ordered each of them to pay a Dh40,000 fine and that they get deported after completing their jail terms. The court found them guilty of offering a bribe to a public employee in exchange for unlawful favours, forgery and use of forged documents, forging and faking a government entity seals and using the fake seals and damaging the public interest.

The court cleared two other men, an Indian and a Pakistani, of the same charges.

Public prosecution records show the defendants, aged between 28 and 45, offered the bank employee to give him 10 per cent off the bank facilities and loans he would help get approved by his administration. They also submitted forged papers including a salary certificate, falsely stating that one of them, a Pakistani, was working as a sales executive and earning Dh22,500 as a monthly salary.

They also forged and used other forged documents that included a forged copy of a bank statement, a forged copy of an Emirates resident ID, a passport with a forged residence visa copy.

The case dates back to February 10, 2017, and was reported to the police on March 1, 2017.

mary@khaleejtimes.com

40K dirhams fine was slapped on each convict by the court