She refused the prosecution's appeal and reassured the accused's confessions

"Dubai Appeal" supports the imprisonment of an employee who forged two certificates to achieve his "ambition"

The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a three-month prison sentence and deportation against a 26-year-old Arab employee who lost his career when he resorted to forging a certificate issued by a specialized academy and a criminal case investigation certificate issued by Dubai Police, which he submitted to the Federal Tax Authority in order to obtain a license. A tax agent, attributing his crime to his desperate need for money and ambition to get to work as quickly as possible, is caught.

The Public Prosecution in Dubai appealed the ruling of the first degree of the Criminal Court, noting that the accusation against the accused is the forgery and use of official electronic documents, and he received a sentence of three months imprisonment and deportation, while the penalty for this crime is temporary imprisonment and a fine of no less than 150 thousand dirhams.

The Court of Appeal confirmed in the merits of the ruling, that the appealed ruling amended the description of the accusation to be a felony of forgery in the form of an official document and a misdemeanor of using the offenders with the penalty prescribed for the accused, so the initial ruling against him coincided with the correct law.

On the other hand, the Court of Appeal did not consider the defendant's retraction of his confessions he made in the Public Prosecution, stressing that it was satisfied with the confession and the evidence.

The accused had admitted, in the prosecution’s investigations, that he wanted to obtain a tax agent’s certificate from the Federal Tax Authority, pass the required tests, and he still had to submit a certificate issued by the PwC Academy and a certificate of good conduct issued by the Dubai Police. He did not have the fees for the first certificate of 13,000 dirhams, so he contacted a friend in his country and explained his circumstances to him. The latter volunteered to help him, but illegally. The accused added that his friend told him that there were electronic copies of the academy certificate on the Internet, and he modified the data of one of those certificates and included the data of the accused in it instead of the data of its owner, with proof that he passed the test at a rate of 94%. Dubai Police, by amending the testimony data of an Australian person, including the data of the accused and placing his picture on it, then the latter submitted the two certificates to the Federal Tax Authority.

For her part, the employee responsible for receiving applications in the authority said that the accused registered a request through the website, included his data as a tax agent, and attached the necessary documents, including a certificate attributed to the PwC Academy, a criminal case search certificate, and other documents, including a copy of his passport and copies of his university certificates. .

And she added that the routine procedures implemented by the authority include checking the certificates by communicating with the Academy authorized to do so. Report to the police.

A Dubai Police witness said that he interrogated the accused, who admitted his crime, attributing the reason to his urgent need for money and his desire to work as quickly as possible, so he sought the help of a friend of his in his country who forged the two certificates.

The accused sought to obtain a tax agent's license with false documents.

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