The Federal Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Public Prosecutor against a ruling that acquitted a Pakistani person of promoting a 500-dirham counterfeit currency and bringing it into the state.
The police arrested the accused, after trying to make a transfer to his country inside a money exchange shop, where the employee discovered that the banknotes provided by the accused forged.
After being caught, the defendant denied knowing that the money he was carrying was fraudulent, confessing that someone he knew in Pakistan had given him the papers to transfer to him from the state, having understood that he intended to take advantage of the currency exchange rate difference, and that he did not know. They forged.
The Federal Supreme Court reassured the authenticity of the statements of the accused, indicating that he went to a money exchange company to transfer the amount as he used in previous times, and therefore he knows for sure that it has the equipment and expertise and specialists in the detection of counterfeit currency, even if the defendant intended to circumvent the promotion in shops with people who can not In addition, the witness working at the exchange center decided that the defendant recorded his data in the exchange company system, and that he is accustomed to the center, if the defendant knew that he had forged papers, he would be taken to a place he did not know. And his statements, and no Obtained that his escape as soon as he knew, it finds justified his fear after he was surprised that the amount of cash a false, and told him that the employee will be reported to the police.
The Public Prosecutor referred the accused to the court, on charges of promoting counterfeit coins legally traded in the state, namely six 500 dirham banknotes, where he put them to circulation as valid with the knowledge of their counterfeiting, and introduced himself to the state counterfeit currencies with knowledge of their counterfeiting, demanding punishment.
The Court of Appeal ruled that the accused was acquitted of what was attributed to him, and the Public Prosecution did not accept this judiciary and challenged him.He explained that the verdict ruled that the accused was acquitted of the charge against him despite being proven against him, pointing out that the court ignored the defendant's escape from the exchange place after discovering his order.
The Federal Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Public Prosecutor, explaining that the decision to indict the acts relating to counterfeiting of the legally traded currency, whether in terms of its imitation, possession or promotion, is the knowledge of the offender at the time of any of these acts that the currency promoted or treated by it or He acquired it with the intent of promoting or dealing with it, fakes, and he put it up for trading as correct.
It is also decided that the lesson in criminal trials is the conviction of the court, based on the evidence before it, and may extract from the data and the circumstances and elements before it the correct image of the case, according to what leads to conviction and certainty, and put forward other images that did not convince them .
- The court reassured the authenticity of the statements of the accused, indicating that he went to transfer the amount as he used in previous times.