The Criminal Criminal Court acquitted a foreigner of the charge of charge an amount from another person in exchange for the issuance of a work visa for him, after the accused opposed the ruling issued to fined him an amount of one thousand dinars.
On the details of the case, the defendant, lawyer, Maryam Al -Sakran, said that the Public Prosecution charged her with a charge to charge money in exchange for the issuance of a work permit for a “work visa” for the victim, after the complainant filed a malicious complaint claiming to hand over the client in a cash amount in exchange for the issuance of a work visa; Then the complainant was surprised to cancel the visa.
The head of the competent public prosecutor issued a criminal order pursuant to the text of Article 280 bis of the Criminal Procedure Law and its amendments, to fined the accused one thousand dinars for what was assigned to him.
The ruling was not accepted by the accused, and he objected to the criminal order, and the Criminal Criminal Court circulated the objection, as the accused’s agent, Maryam Al -Sakran, paid that her client did not sell a work visa, but rather helped him to end the investor visa procedures, according to the constant in the documents, and the applicant’s agent referred to the law decision in paragraph (d) of Article 23 of Law No. 19 of 2006 regarding the regulation of the labor market and its amendments It stipulated that “any person is prohibited to receive any amounts or obtain any benefit or advantage of the worker in exchange for issuing a work permit on it or in exchange for using this worker or keeping it in his work.”
She added that what criminalizes the text of the article, the previous statement, is to charge the amounts in exchange for the work permit, not the investor visa, so the sums for the last visa are not included in the framework of the criminal criminal criminal that was restricted and described by the Public Prosecution in the indictment.
The court said in the reasons for the ruling that it was examined the lawsuit, surrounded its facts, circumstances and circumstances, and the evidence that the accusation was accused of, insight and insight, and she acted to it and parallel between it, and finds that the crime associated with the accused was not achieved as it was presented, which is not possible with the judiciary to be convicted of this crime and the penalty of the punishment for him It was assigned to him from the accusation of the implementation of the ruling of Article 255 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
