Customs Authority fraudsters face charges.Byline: Daily Star Staff Summary: Financial General Prosecutor Judge Fawzi Adham filed charges on Thursday against 48 employees from the Customs Authority, for fraud and squandering squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. public funds See Fund, 3. See also: Public . The employees were suspected of falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. official customs documents and wasting public money. They were transferred to the custody of Investigating Magistrate Any individual who has the power of a public civil officer or inferior judicial officer, such as a Justice of the Peace. The various state judicial systems provide for judicial officers who are often called magistrates, justices of the peace, or police justices. Shawqi al-Hajjar. BEIRUT: Financial General Prosecutor Judge Fawzi Adham filed charges on Thursday against 48 employees from the Customs Authority, for fraud and squandering public funds. The employees were suspected of falsifying official customs documents and wasting public money. They were transferred to the custody of Investigating Magistrate Shawqi al-Hajjar. A similar case was earlier transferred to Hajjar but is currently suspended. -- The Daily Star Copyright 2009, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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