A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced an expatriate man to three years in jail and a fine of QR20,000 for stealing QR500,000 from the account of his Qatari employer.

Local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported that the court also ordered the defendant to repay the sum he grabbed through fraud. The issue started when the victim asked the defendant to help him finalise the process of purchasing a hotel in Doha.

Then, he entrusted him with completing the procedures of getting a bank loan of QR2mn and signed the necessary documents without filling them.

Within one year, the victim received a bank statement showing that his credit account was used for the purchase of various items of jewellery and transfer of a sum of QR 200,000 to another account. Investigation pointed to the defendant who betrayed the trust of his employer, the daily added.

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