Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi General Prosecution has referred three people to the Criminal Court on charges of forging official documents.
An Emirati woman, 33, applied to receive a marital status document from the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, and requested the document to state that she had not re-married since her divorce in 2004.
However staff at the Electronic Documentation Division, discovered that she actually remarried and divorced for a second time in 2010, and that she had previously provided misleading documents that did not reflect her true marital status.
Upon investigation, it was discovered that she had done this in order to claim social aid. She confessed, before the general prosecution, to forgery.
She claimed, however, she did not know the two witnesses to her second marriage, and said that they were not aware that she had been married before. The two witnesses admitted before the prosecutor that they had not until then met the accused They claimed not knowing anything about her marital status and that they performed their role as witnesses, upon her father’s request.
Investigations revealed that the accused had applied for social aid as a divorced woman under the age of 35 but had not yet completed the required procedures.
An official at the General Prosecutor Office issued a stark warning against anyone who provides misleading information, forges documents or even signs official documents as a witness, without being fully aware of the conditions stated in the documents and the consequences. Failure to do so will mean they will be subject to legal consequences for impeding justice, contributing to people losing their rights and encouraging crime.
