Student Forges a Certificate Seal, gets caught

Student is sentenced to one year imprisonment

According to an article by Al Sharq Newspaper, a student was ruled to imprisonment by The Criminal Court due to forging an official document, which was a university degree with a diplomatic stamp.

As a result, the student was sentenced to imprisonment for one year, and deportation by the completion of the sentence.

The forged document and university degree are seized and destroyed.

According to the conclusions of the public prosecution, the accused cooperated with an anonymous individual to help forge the official document, which was issued by a diplomatic authority abroad.

Fully aware, the forged document was submitted to a government agency for approval.

The accused admitted that he was also helped by his brother in another country, who cooperated in the procedures for forging the university diploma.

The legal representative indicated that the criminal behaviour was minor. the Public Prosecution applied the charges of having forged an official document that uses a diplomatic seal with an intention to be used abroad. However, altering the truth was declared as a criminal intent in this context..

Furthermore, the Department of Counterfeiting and Forgery confirmed that the two stamps on the university diploma were indirect transmissions of counterfeit fingerprints executed on a color printer device, rather than genuine stamps.

According to the Al Sharq article, the penalty was issued in accordance with modern criminal policy in order to ensure that ulterior aims were met; nevertheless, the judgement also took into account the offender’s young age and the lack of any prior criminal record.