Dubai: A salesman at Du has been jailed for three months for forging papers and bills for the same post-paid data bundle to get a Dh25 monthly incentive per sold package promised to high-performing staff.

The internal audit department of the telecom service provider discovered that a single reference number had been used more than once by staff and activated for more than one client in May.

The investigation revealed that the 34-year-old Filipino salesman had used the personal papers of one of their countrymen and produced faulty bills for the same post-paid number.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the defendant of forging and using forged papers and documents.

Prosecutors had charged the defendant and a 32-year-old Filipina sales supervisor with forging papers and documents as proof of high productivity at work to justify an increase in sales and get a Dh25 incentive.

According to the primary ruling, the Filipina supervisor was cleared due to lack of corroborated evidence.

Presiding judge Urfan Omar said the accused will be deported after serving his jail term.

Records said the papers were forged and used by the defendant, who submitted them to his managers.

The defendant and the acquitted Filipina pleaded not guilty.

A Du official said the forgery was discovered following an internal audit operation.

“We double checked on the submitted papers and it was discovered that the suspects had forged papers in which the same reference number belonged to the same post-paid data package. The operator normally requires its clients, who subscribe to such packages, to submit a post-paid phone bill, Dewa bill or credit card details to obtain a phone and a data bundle. The suspects abused the authority granted to them in the sales department, accessed Du’s e-system, forged papers of two post-paid data package subscribers … they did so to pretend that their sales had increased to benefit from a Dh25 monthly incentive per sold package. Upon confronting the suspects, they signed a written confession … then they were suspended from work and reported to the police,” the officer testified.

Prosecutors have appealed the primary judgement and are seeking to have the defendant’s punishment stiffened and the Filipina’s acquittal overturned by the Appeal Court.