JEDDAH: A cattle breeder is accused to have been forging documents to seek government permission for organizing entertainments events in Madinah for the last 12 years.
The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution, Madinah, is investigating a complaint by a Saudi citizen that the said Arab expat had been using his institution’s name, to acquire the approval of the secretariat in the region to organize celebrations for Eid Al-Fitr.
While the Saudi owns an establishment which is permitted to organize such celebrations, the expat's residency card shows him as a cattle breeder and his sponsor is living in Taif.
An investigation is underway as how an Arab "cattle breeder" could forge documents to organize entertainment events in Madinah for 12 years, unchecked, a local publication said quoting sources.
The man who filed the complaint said two persons submitted a forged letter to Al-Baida Municipality on Ramadan 12, in the name of his establishment, to organize the celebrations of Eid in 2015, without any other attachments.
The letter was approved and the mayor issued another letter to the road security authorities to facilitate the movement of a zoo to Madinah. The zoo remained in Jeddah for two days and when the secretariat in the city refused to honor the letter, three of the animals, worth SR180,000, died because of staying two days under the direct sun.
The matter came to light when the citizen received a letter by the zoo owner to pay compensation for the dead animals.
He said the Egyptian resident, who forged the letter, communicated with him during the last month of Ramadan to organize celebrations and when the Egyptian reached the establishment the citizen called the police, who arrested him after he submitted the falsified documents as evidence.
“When I referred to the head of the municipality, he told me the letter was submitted by an Egyptian resident, who works at a contracting firm and the municipality trusted him; the other man was a relative of the first and the letter was approved without asking about the commercial registry, or the owner or the mandating letter,” explained the citizen.
Col. Fahd bin Amer Al-Ghannam, media spokesman for the Madinah Police, confirmed the two Egyptian residents had been arrested and were referred to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution.
The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution, Madinah, is investigating a complaint by a Saudi citizen that the said Arab expat had been using his institution’s name, to acquire the approval of the secretariat in the region to organize celebrations for Eid Al-Fitr.
While the Saudi owns an establishment which is permitted to organize such celebrations, the expat's residency card shows him as a cattle breeder and his sponsor is living in Taif.
An investigation is underway as how an Arab "cattle breeder" could forge documents to organize entertainment events in Madinah for 12 years, unchecked, a local publication said quoting sources.
The man who filed the complaint said two persons submitted a forged letter to Al-Baida Municipality on Ramadan 12, in the name of his establishment, to organize the celebrations of Eid in 2015, without any other attachments.
The letter was approved and the mayor issued another letter to the road security authorities to facilitate the movement of a zoo to Madinah. The zoo remained in Jeddah for two days and when the secretariat in the city refused to honor the letter, three of the animals, worth SR180,000, died because of staying two days under the direct sun.
The matter came to light when the citizen received a letter by the zoo owner to pay compensation for the dead animals.
He said the Egyptian resident, who forged the letter, communicated with him during the last month of Ramadan to organize celebrations and when the Egyptian reached the establishment the citizen called the police, who arrested him after he submitted the falsified documents as evidence.
“When I referred to the head of the municipality, he told me the letter was submitted by an Egyptian resident, who works at a contracting firm and the municipality trusted him; the other man was a relative of the first and the letter was approved without asking about the commercial registry, or the owner or the mandating letter,” explained the citizen.
Col. Fahd bin Amer Al-Ghannam, media spokesman for the Madinah Police, confirmed the two Egyptian residents had been arrested and were referred to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution.
