A BAHRAINI woman was given a one-year suspended sentence by the High Criminal Court after being found guilty of embezzling thousands of dinars from a shop belonging to her father-in-law.
The 25-year-old widow was also fined BD1,000.
Court documents revealed that she managed an Abaya shop and wanted to take it over after her husband died.
Court documents revealed that the defendant’s father-in-law received text messages indicating transfers reaching BD3,600 had been made on separate occasions from the shop’s account to the 25-year-old’s personal account.
“The defendant’s father-in-law revealed that upon receiving the messages he spoke to a shop employee who stated that the 25-year-old was stealing money from the shop,” court documents said.
“He also discovered that she rerouted store payments to go into her personal account from customers.
“He stated that after his son’s death he allowed the 25-year-old to manage the shop and take BD200 for herself under the condition that she deposited all earnings into the shop’s account.”
The total amount missing from the store reached BD5,000. The defendant’s brother-in-law earlier told prosecutors that she had taken the money.
The 25-year-old denied the charges and told the court that her late-husband opened the store for her while she was studying and due to legal procedures it had to be registered in her father-in-law’s name.
In her statement to prosecutors she claimed that she had problems with her father-in-law regarding inheritance matters.
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