Dubai: An employee has been accused of presenting a forged medical prescription that he obtained from his country to Dubai prosecutors while being questioned in a drug case.
The 30-year-old Egyptian employee, A,F., was said to have obtained a forged hospital report that doctors prescribed to him saying that he has to consume tramadol, and had that report stamped by the UAE Embassy in Cairo.
Then he produced that hospital report to the Drugs Prosecution in Dubai when he was being questioned for consuming tramadol.
“I do not need to forge a medical report to consume tramadol because I was being treated in a hospital in Cairo following an accident… doctors did give me that report,” the defendant argued when he entered a not guilty plea before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said A.F. forged a medical report and had it stamped by embassy staff in Egypt. He also used that forged report and handed it to prosecutors. He was also charged with consuming a mind-altering substance.
“Why did you forge the report and did you present it to prosecutors?” presiding judge Ezzat Abdul Lat asked the suspect.
“I have nothing to do with the forgery… actually I was detained in Dubai. I asked my parents to send me the medical report and I received it by courier. I did not know that it was forged,” the suspect replied.
When asked whether he knew that the report was forged, the defendant contended: “I do not need to forge the prescription… I already have a medical file in that hospital. I had an accident during my stay in Egypt and I was admitted to that hospital for treatment. I already have the official report and have asked my parents to send me the official one. I consumed tramadol as per that medical prescription.”
A ruling will be heard next week.
