DOHA: A lower criminal court here has sent two young men to jail for five years each for selling forged work visas.
The two were accused of using forged official seals to produce 24 fake work visas for different nationalities for sale.
One of their victims told the court that he had asked one of the accused to help him get a work visa for a relative and some three weeks later, he was told that the visa was ready. “I bought the visa for QR11,000,” said the victim.
However, he added that when he went to a photocopying and typing shop to fax the said visa to his relative, an employee there told him the visa was forged.
The man said he was shocked and went to the immigration office and officials there confirmed the visa was not genuine.
A second victim of the convicted duo said he needed work visas for five of his relatives. The word was out so a colleague told him he knew someone who could arrange the visas. The convicts, he claimed, told him when he met them that they had 24 work visas ready for different nationalities, including Arabs.
The victim said it was agreed that he would pay QR8,000 for each visa and gave the convicts QR12,000 as advance payment along with photocopies of their passports..
One of the convicts was working with a typing and photocopying centre. After their arrest the duo confessed to the crime. They told the court that while one of them forged the visas the other ‘marketed’ them. The Peninsula
