DUBAI // A policeman forged a sick note to earn three days of leave then flew to Lebanon for six days to have fun, heard Dubai Criminal Court.
Emirati AA, 27, is charged with forging an official sick leave document from Sharjah’s Al Qasimi Hospital with the help of an unknown man by changing the dates on the leave and adding his name.
He is also charged with using an original Ministry of Health stamp on a forged documents and with using the forged document by submitting it to his employer, Dubai Police, again with the help of an unknown man.
The policeman was caught when a random check was made and he was found to be outside the country on the dates of his sick leave.
“We suspected [something was not right with] the leave and checked his status and found him in Lebanon,” testified police major AMA, 40.
The major said Al Qasimi Hospital was contacted but officials there said the defendant had not been at the hospital.
“AA then confessed in writing and said that he doesn’t remember the person who got him the leave,” said the major.
A further hearing date will be set.
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