The former Sharia and legal advisor and judge at the Ministry of Justice in Saudi Arabia, Turki Al-Tayyar confirmed that strict imprisonment and financial fines are the punishments for those who take out SIM cards on the identity of others without their knowledge, following the arrest of a criminal organization engaged in financial fraud.

According to him, "I expect the criminals will face imprisonment for several years, as well as fines of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of riyals, for obtaining SIM cards on the identities of others without their consent

The judge may impose the penalty of deportation on expatriates involved in the crime, as the criminals assumed the character of the state as well as took people's money and spent it fraudulently

- The Saudi Public Prosecution said that the Money prosecution had begun an investigation with a criminal group consisting of a citizen and 6 resident expatriates of Asian nationality, who engaged in a financial fraud crime by deceiving the victims into believing they were representatives of financial departments and stealing their confidential data, entering bank accounts and stealing money from them by doing so.

- The Public Prosecution added that, as a result of the investigation procedures, the citizen took out a commercial record in the telecommunications activity, and allowed the expats to take out sim cards with the identities of other people without their knowledge. It was discovered that over 2000 fingerprints of people were stored in paper and passed on to the identity verification device, resulting in over 2000 fingerprints being stored and placed on paper.

According to the Attorney General's decision, the above-mentioned persons were arrested as the charges against them required arrest.

SOURCE : SAUDI EXPATRIATES