Investigations revealed that the convicted individuals had exploited contracts for the provision of workers to retail outlets dealing with the company, where their duties included arranging, displaying, and promoting its products.
The irregularities involved permitting the provision of workers in breach of contractual terms, manipulating actual staffing requirements, and inflating attendance records by including the names of workers who had not performed any actual work. They also included overstating working days and overtime hours, as well as manipulating workers' job classifications to obtain payments without lawful entitlement
Raed bin Ali bin Saleh (Omani)
Misdemeanors: Complicity in forgery by prior agreement, unlawful interference with public funds, breach of official duties.
Five years imprisonment and fine of RO146,134
Misdemeanors: Complicity in forgery by prior agreement, unlawful interference with public funds, breach of official duties.
Five years imprisonment and fine of RO 137,886
Mohammed Zubair Syed Awan, (foreign)
Misdemeanors: Forgery of official documents and the use thereof.
Three years imprisonment and fine of RO 137,856
Misdemeanors: Forgery of official documents and the use thereof.
Three years imprisonment and fine of RO 137,856
Misdemeanors: Forgery of official documents and the use thereof.
Three years imprisonment and fine of RO 55,000
Misdemeanors: Offering a bribe to a public official.
Three years imprisonment and fine of RO 24,316
Other actions include Confiscation of the 2023 Range Rover Vogue vehicle in favor of the State Treasury, confiscation of the forged documents for subsequent destruction, permanent deportation of the third, fourth, and sixth convicted persons upon completion of their sentences, dismissal from office and permanent disqualification from holding any public office for the first and second convicted persons and restitution of the embezzled funds, with some of the convicted persons ordered to repay them.
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