Expat to serve three years in prison for forging a degree certificate
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced in absentia an Indian expatriate to three years in jail for counterfeiting a university degree indicating that he got a BSC degree from Calicut University in 2006.
According to Gulf Times, local Arabic daily Arrayah reported yesterday that the court also ordered the deportation of the man after serving his sentence when arrested.
The defendant used an official sticker taken from another document and put it on the counterfeited certificate. Then, he used a pen to trace on the original signatures and used a counterfeited stamp of the Qatari Embassy in Mumbai, India.
Later, he submitted the counterfeited certificate to the attestation department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha. The attestation employee doubted the authenticity of the document and sent it to the forensic labs which confirmed the fraud.
The court established that the defendant agreed with an unidentified person to do the counterfeiting for him in exchange for 20,000 Indian rupees, to improve his position at his job, the daily added.
"Doha Criminal Court has sentenced in absentia "
In absentia means he wasn't in the court during the sentence announcement.
If you don't show up for any reason the trail continues
Boredman: "Doha Criminal Court has sentenced in absentia an Indian expatriate ..."
The keyword being absentia
Shame...
Brite, he is not away , he is in jail.
How did he get away ?