Imprisonment and deportation of a young man who received two credit cards for “forgery”

A court of cassation in Abu Dhabi upheld an appeal ruling that sentenced a defendant to six months in prison and his deportation from the state after the punishment was executed, after being convicted in association with another for forging a salary certificate, ID card and residence visa and using it to open an account in a bank and obtain two credit cards.

According to the case papers, the Public Prosecution Office assigned the accused the charges of his participation with an unknown person by way of agreement and assistance in falsifying an official editor, which is a salary certificate attributed to a government agency by way of artificiality, after having written the necessary data in the same way as the correct documents issued by that authority and signed with signed signatures Falsely to the concerned employee, and he was accused of using the forged editor, by submitting it to the appropriate employee in a bank.

The prosecution also assigned the defendant his participation with another unknown in falsifying the identity card image, in addition to falsifying a residence visa and using it in what was forged for it by presenting it to the bank's specialized employee, and the crime was completed according to this agreement and that assistance.

The accused was assigned to participate in committing fraud in customary documents, which are the account opening forms and the extraction of two credit cards from the bank, after he appeared before the bank employee concerned and signed these forms in the name of a recipe different from his reality, and seized the cash amounts owned by the bank.

The court of first instance ruled that the defendant was charged with the charges related to three years imprisonment, his deportation from the state, the confiscation of false documents, and obliged him to pay the due fee, so he appealed the ruling, and the Appeal Court sentenced him to six months imprisonment and his support in anything else. The appeal.

The defendant asserted in his appeal that the ruling convicted him of participating in falsifying official and customary documents and using them and fraud, with only the interest available to him, by taking from the mere use of his credit cards as evidence of his participation in falsifying documents, and extracting them despite his adherence to the absence of his knowledge of the forgery of these documents.

For its part, the court affirmed that participation in the agreement consists of the union of the intention of the perpetrator and the partner to commit the agreed act, and that participation in forgery crimes is often without external manifestations or tangible material actions, and it is sufficient for his evidence that the court believed that he obtained from the circumstances of the case and its circumstances, and that the criminal intent in Crimes of forgery of documents are realized when the perpetrator deliberately changed the truth in the editors, with the intention of using the editor for the purpose for which it changed the truth.