The Court of Cassation upheld verdicts issued in one of the largest commercial fraud cases, sentencing the owners of two companies – one to three years in prison and a fine of BD100,000, and the second to a fine of BD101,000.
One company official was also sentenced to three years in jail, while 19 employees were convicted and sentenced to two years.
All expatriate defendants are to be permanently deported from the country after serving their sentences.
Two supermarket and food distribution companies, with all their branches, were convicted and fined BD10,000 each.
One company and three branches of another were ordered to be closed for six months.
The court also ordered the confiscation and destruction of the spoiled and adulterated goods and the materials and tools used in the fraud case.
These penalties relate to charges of possessing expired and spoiled food items and distributing and marketing them after falsifying their expiration dates.
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