The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal ruled to commute a ruling issued against a young Gulf man, from five years to two years, accused of forgery in an official editor (a work card attributed to a security agency), to wear a military uniform and impersonate a famous person.
The details of the case are due to the defendant plagiarizing during a visit to a hospital in Abu Dhabi more than once the name of a famous Emirati character, wearing a special uniform with a military rank, in addition to presenting a false work card in the name of one of the famous personalities of the hospital security officer after he placed on his image a name and the rank of heterosexuals, and allowed For himself by making decisions inside the hospital, and transferring patients to private rooms, based on the fact that he is the well-known figure whose name is impersonated.
The Court of First Instance had sentenced the defendant to five years imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 dirhams, confiscation of crime tools, and obliged him to pay the criminal case fees, but the ruling was not accepted by the accused, and he was appealed to the appeal.
During the appeals sessions, the defendant’s lawyer, lawyer Hadia Hammad, questioned the statements of the informant who worked as a hospital security officer, as well as those of his staff, noting that the communication occurred after a verbal argument between them, which prompted the latter to fabricate the accusation of her client, and also questioned statements Witnesses working at the hospital, being the amount's colleagues, indicating that their testimony is in solidarity with their colleague.
Its defense was based on the unreasonability of the accused plagiarizing a famous person known to all, and visiting the hospital himself more than eight times, and claiming that this character without one of his employees noting him, indicating the absence of the criminal intent of the accused with his physical and moral corner, due to the lack of intentional criminal intent to forge And impersonating others, especially with the lack of elements of the crime, which is the causal relationship between the act and the harm, as the accused did not do any act that would harm any person.
She pointed out that the transfer of the accused patient from one room to another, or the introduction of a person to visit a patient does not constitute harm, in addition to that the accused did not use that characteristic for material gain or for the installation of others or the return to it for a benefit or interest, which is not something that deserves The punishment.
While the Court of Appeal ruling indicated that the report of the electronic laboratory department of the Judicial Department, after examining the accused's phone, it was found that the photos of the military cards were found, the information of which was changed, the rank and the name, and the ruling also pointed out that the accused confessed in the investigations of the prosecution and the record of evidence that he made a change in the work card His own via a mobile phone program, wearing military uniforms, placing a logo and rank, and impersonating a famous personal prescription, to facilitate his admission to a hospital and respond to his requests for the help of patients, and that the receptionist asked him at one time to prove his identity, so he became busy with the limit Lost in the mobile phone and fled, as the accused confessed to the record of inferred by taking advantage of the characteristic and the name of the famous person in the reservation of wedding halls at reduced prices and get a special discount in hotels.
The court ruled in his presence, accepting the appeal in a form, amending the appealed sentence to two years imprisonment, supporting it otherwise, and obliging the appellant to draw.