Sharjah: Arab man gets his brother in trouble for forging a certificate

The Sharjah Criminal Court has acquitted an Arab man of forging and using the seal and financial stamp of the UAE’s Embassy in an Asian country, in addition to falsifying and using a customary editor.

The details of the case reveal that an Arab received a certificate from a shipping company sent to him by his brother, who is a resident of a Gulf country, to be approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and to apply for a job.

In a statement, lawyer Saeed Butti Al Muhairi said that the ministry’s official suspected that the seal and the stamp of the certificate are forged, and asked the client to leave it and return after 4 days to take it. After making sure that the certificate was actually falsified, the police was informed. When his client returned to the certification office, he was arrested and transferred to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and then to the court.

Al Muhairi submitted a defense memo based on the absence of motives and elements of the crime. His client received the certificate at 11:09 AM, and he arrived at the certification office at 11:56 AM, which it makes it impossible for him in those few minutes to carry out the forgery. He also knows that his brother stayed in the Asian country for a long time, and that his wife is a national of the Asian country. Therefore, he did not think that his brother would need to forge the seal of the Embassy, which confirms absence of criminal intent for the crime.