French Bank and two car makers cheated by a network of swindllers

A criminal court in Algiers yesterday ruled on a case of forgery of documents used to acquire cars by easy terms which involved 24 convicts who diddled the Algeria- based Societe General, and the car makers Ford and Hundai.

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• The public prosecutor issued sentences ranging from 1 to 5 years imprisonment against the wrongdoers on account of forgery and attempted fraud on legal documents.
• For her part, the plaintiffs’ lawyer requested a five year sentence against B. Mohammed in his capacity as the ring leader and the mastermind of the fraud.
• The court sentenced to one year in prison the other convicts who forwarded forged documents to the B. Mohammed including fake job certificates and pay stubs.
• In order to shed light on the ins and outs of the case, the prosecutor started hearing the convicts’ version of facts. They revealed that A. Mokhtar assured them that they can acquire a car with a file including their identity card, a driving license, a birth certificate and a residency one, but the main convict would join fake pay stubs and a health insurance card to the dossier forwarded to the bank