Friday 03 / May / 2024
Muscat: Nearly 5,000 cases of cheques being dishonoured due to lack of funds were registered with Public Prosecution in 2020.
Speaking about the types of crimes recorded in 2020, the Assistant Attorney General, Dr. Ahmed Said al-Shukaili, who acts as official spokesman of the Public Prosecution Department (PPD), said, “Most of them are crimes of bad cheques (4,947), followed by Labour Law violation crimes (2,753), expat Residency crimes (2,584), IT crimes (2,292), rape (104), use of narcotics and psychotropic substances (1,962) and begging (324).”
Al-Shukaili also said that the PPD recovered a total of OMR24 million, most of them fines and confiscations.
Al Khoudh division recorded the highest number of cases at 2,206 and Baushar was next at 1,841.
