Bahrain court sentences employee and businesswoman to 10 years in prison in major corruption case

TDT | Manama

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The High Criminal Court has sentenced a senior employee at the Jaffaria Waqf Directorate and a businesswoman to 10 years in prison each in a major corruption case.

The employee was accused of wasting money worth a whopping BD60 million in addition to receiving a bribe worth BD16,000 from his co-defendant. According to court files, the defendant was a director at the Directorate’s land classification department.

He allegedly received the bribe from the woman after he pledged to change the classification of land she rented from his organisation, but his failure to do so prompted her to reveal what happened during a meeting with officials from the Jaffaria Waqf.

She said that the defendant requested her to issue a BD16,000 cheque and without writing the recipient’s name. As a result, his superiors launched a comprehensive investigation which didn’t just conclude with that the defendant received a bribe, but he also wasted BD60 million with his misconducts during his tenure. It was discovered that the defendant’s wife received the money.