The Chief of the Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Prosecution stated that the Public Prosecution had received a report from the National Center for Financial Investigations regarding the results of its investigations of two defendants of Arab nationality transporting money across the border from the air port in the Kingdom of Bahrain by exploiting others to transport gold bullion outside the country. They used to announce through social media the granting of free travel tickets to those wishing to travel to one of the countries, and upon their acceptance, they were assigned to carry the gold bullion, and they were given false invoices stating that they owned them contrary to the truth, with the aim of passing them through the customs office, and then delivering the gold to the final beneficiary in the country. The other.
The Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Prosecution began its investigations into the report by issuing immediate decisions to prevent the defendants from traveling and to disclose their bank accounts and property. It listened to witnesses to the incident from travelers who were exploited in the process of transporting gold, where it was proven that two of the defendants exploited the need of others to travel and granted them free travel tickets. In exchange for carrying luggage, belongings, and gold bullion to deliver them to others in the country of arrival, and in order to accomplish this, they used invoices belonging to a jewelry store that the store owner provided them with, and this enabled them to distort the truth of the buyers’ data in them for the purpose of submitting them to the customs department and being able to exit with the gold bullion from the port.
It also interrogated the defendants and the owner of the jewelry store, and they confessed to what was attributed to them, and ordered them to be detained pending investigation. Investigations are still continuing to determine all the circumstances and circumstances of the incident.
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