Bahrain Mirror: The Sixth High Court of Appeals communed a verdict issued against 3 suspects accused of faking private documents and using smart card belonging to an Asian. The court commuted the sentence of 2 suspects from 5 to 2 years in prison and that of the third suspect to one year and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Public Prosecution claimed that in 2013, the first suspect used a copy of the victim's ID card, a scanned colored copy, in an illegal way to buy SIM card under the victim's name. The prosecution accused the third suspect of taking part with the first one through agreeing with him and inciting him to commit the crime. The second suspect was accused of agreeing and helping the first suspect to commit the crime through providing him with scanned colored copy of the victim's ID to facilitate buying SIM cards under the victim's name.

The authorities claim that they received a notice from the General Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Forensic Evidence stating that in the framework of searching for wanted citizens over political cases, information reported that the first suspect, who works in VIVA communication company, exploited his job to extract SIM cards under an Asian name and handed them to the third (fugitive) suspect to distribute them among wanted. Investigating the first suspect, he said that the second suspect provided him with a copy of the Asian's ID card who works for him.

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