Cairo: A Bahraini court had sentenced two expatriates to varying jail terms and deportation from the country after convicting them on charges of human trafficking and coercing two girls into prostitution, a prosecution official has said.
The verdict was issued by the Major Criminal Court, which sentenced one defendant to life imprisonment and ordered him to pay the cost of one victim’s return to her home country, chief of the human trafficking prosecution said.
The same court also sentenced the second defendant to 10 years in prison, ordered him to pay a fine of BD2,000, pay expenses of the second victim’s repatriation and be deported from Bahrain after serving the term, the official added.
Cairo: Two employees at a major Bahraini state medical centre have been referred to a criminal trial on charges of seizing a large quantity of medical drugs worth about BD38,000, a prosecution official has said.
Public prosecution completed investigation into the case after receiving a report from the country’s anti-corruption watchdog that the two, who worked at the Salmaniya Medical Complex in Manama, had seized a total of 244,000 medical tablets, the head of the Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Prosecution added.
The suspects admitted to having manipulated their work in a pharmacy at the centre and lack of supervision by repeatedly embezzling different types of medicines for personal use and distribution to relatives, the official said, according to Akhbar Al Khaleej newspaper. Witnesses were also cross-examined in the case.