.jpg?20260313')
A labourer who impersonated a fellow expatriate to rent scaffolding equipment has lost his appeal at the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court.
The court earlier heard that the 43-year-old Bangladeshi man picked up a lost CPR card from the ground and used the identity of its owner to sign a rental agreement with an equipment shop.
Court documents show that the Bangladeshi rented 100 scaffolding pieces and 60 wooden planks under the false name and failed to make any payment.
In October, the High Criminal Court found him guilty of six charges, including theft, and sentenced him to three years in prison, followed by deportation upon completion of his sentence.
He was convicted of misusing and unlawfully benefiting from a legitimate identity card, impersonating the victim by providing his personal data to the construction rental company, falsifying information on a form, and taking the rental equipment for himself.
“I dropped my CPR card in the Sanabis area, where I live,” the fellow Bangladeshi victim, who works as a delivery driver for a popular broasted outlet, earlier testified.
“I posted about losing my card on Facebook, and I shared my phone number in the post, so anyone who finds it can call me.
“I went to the police station to report it missing, where I was told I could request a replacement. So I did as I was told and got a new card.
“A few weeks later, I was surprised when a friend reached out and informed me that he saw a social media post that I rented scaffolding from a store and never returned it. That’s when I realised that someone picked up my card and used it.
“I called the shop’s owner and told him about what occurred, and then went once again to the police station to report the matter.”
A shopkeeper at the rental company told the Public Prosecution that he saw the appellant come to the shop in Ma’ameer. He said that he was the one who prepared the receipt and rental agreement for the defendant.
Security camera footage from the store, on the day of the January 2025 incident, showed that the defendant had come to the store and signed a form.
&uuid=(email))