Jordanian judiciary punishes government employees on fraud charges
The Jordanian judiciary has convicted a government employee for the offense of abuse of position, and a former employee for fraud, and decided to imprison them for 6 months.
The court issued its decision, yesterday, Wednesday, during a public session, and decided to imprison the two convicts for a period of 6 months and fine them 500 dinars.
The court reduced the sentence of the convicted government employee and reduced it to imprisonment for a period of 3 months and a fine of 250 dinars, after dropping the personal right by the complainant, which the court considered one of the mitigating reasons, according to a number of local media outlets.
The decision was issued adversarially against the first convict and as a prejudicial for the second, and it will be appealable before the competent court.
The Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission investigated the case, and the Public Prosecution charged the two convicts with charges of fraud, abuse of public office and forgery of private papers, and presented 7 witnesses to the court.
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