“Prosecution”: Imprisonment, deportation, and fines of 138 thousand dinars for defendants who obtained fake work permits.

The Attorney General, Chief Prosecutor of Ministries and Public Entities, stated that the Second Minor Criminal Court issued a ruling convicting five defendants, ruling that three of them be punished with imprisonment for a period of three months and their permanent deportation from the Kingdom of Bahrain after carrying out the sentence, and fined all defendants with fines totaling one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dinars, for keeping work permits without needing them. The details of the incident go back to what was stated in the records of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority, that the periodic inspections carried out by the officers of Judicial investigations at the headquarters of commercial companies to verify work permits revealed the extraction of fifty commercial records at one headquarters, and by completing the search and investigation procedures, the identity of the owners of those records was determined, and it was found that one of them had extracted two additional records at two other addresses, bringing the total to fifty-two commercial records, all of which belong to fictitious companies that do not actually exist. The defendants, who hold Asian nationality, were able to obtain one hundred and thirty-eight work permits from those fictitious companies, and kept them without needing them, and accordingly coordination was made. With the Department of Investigation and Criminal Evidence to arrest the accused, three of them were arrested. Immediately upon being informed of the incident, the Public Prosecution began its investigations, interrogating the arrested accused, and ordered the arrest and bringing of the fleeing accused. It also listened to the statements of witnesses to the incident, and after completing the investigations and examining the evidence of the accusation before the accused, the Public Prosecution ordered that they be referred to the competent criminal court, which issued its previous ruling.