A WOMAN has been acquitted of embezzling BD8,500 from a savings association after a court heard she was a victim of a con.
The 43-year-old Bahraini was standing trial at the Lower Criminal Court on charges that she had taken the money from several participants in 2018.
Defence lawyer Intisar Al Asfoor argued that the woman who filed the case against her client had set up the association and failed to pay her client her share of the funds.
She said that the alleged victim collected more than BD10,000 and failed to give any of the participants their share before filing a false complaint against her client.
“The defendant was acquitted due to lack of evidence,” read the court ruling.
“The woman (the victim) who set up the association failed to give any money to the participants.
“The defendant was not paid any money and did not trick anyone. She was, in fact, conned. Therefore, she was found not guilty of the charges due to a lack of evidence.”
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