UAE | Crime
Emirati medical student faces trial for seeking job with fake certificate
A medical student faces trial for applying to work at the Health Ministry using forged documents which said she earned a degree from the college from which she was reportedly dismissed before graduation.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:17 April 16, 2008
Dubai: A medical student faces trial for applying to work at the Health Ministry using forged documents which said she earned a degree from the college from which she was reportedly dismissed before graduation.
The Emirati student handed the documents, which said she obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery, to the ministry's human resources section when she applied for a job.
An Emirati section official testified that they coincidently discovered the forgery when another applicant revealed that the girl had been dismissed from the medical college in one of the northern emirates.
The Public Prosecution charged the 29-year-old female suspect with faking the documents and attesting them at the Ministries of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Foreign Affairs.
She was also charged with giving the fake documents to the Health Ministry when applying for a job as a doctor.
The Health Ministry human resources official told the Public Prosecution: "The student handed the required documents when she applied for work as a doctor in October 2005. Her documents said she succeeded in her college exams. She signed two undertakings that she will not work for any other party except the Ministry. We forwarded her job application to the civil service department for approval. One day another applicant who used to teach at the same college revealed that the suspect never sat for the exams because she made trouble with some students before the management suspended her."
The witness claimed that upon comparing the suspect's documents with those of the other applicant the signatures did not match.
"She was abroad when I called her up and asked her to bring the original documents, but she said she couldn't come... However the college director informed us that she had been expelled from the college and that she didn't receive any documents which said she graduated," testified the official.
A hearing will be held soon.
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