A man has been arrested and jailed for withdrawing money using a stolen ATM card

Qatar does not take kindly to crimes, and that is the reason it has been rated as one of the safest countries on the face of the earth.

It was proved yet again when a man was arrested recently and sentenced to a year in jail for withdrawing money using a stolen ATM card. He was also fined QR10,000 for the offence, reported The Peninsula.

The court sentenced the defendant for stealing his friend’s ATM card and withdrawing money without his knowledge. The accused has been ordered to refund the money and will be deported on completion of the jail sentence.

The prosecution accused the person of withdrawing money using an ATM card issued by the victim’s bank. When the victim discovered that an amount of QR2,850 had been removed from his card, he informed the police.

While reviewing the surveillance camera of the ATM from which the amount was withdrawn, the victim identified the defendant, who confessed to the investigators that he had withdrawn money using the stolen card.

He said he took the ATM card, along with the passcode, from one of the drawers in the room he shared with his friend. He went to the ATM and asked a person who was there to withdraw the money because he didn't know how to use it.

Article 381 of the Penal Code says that any person who unlawfully appropriates the funds of banks or customers by means of the use of ATM cards issued by the bank shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

Since the accused was a foreigner and the judgment was issued in a crime of dishonour and honesty, the court ordered that he be expelled from the State under article 77 of the Penal Code.